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Poetry Flashcards

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Petrarchan Sonnet

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An octave and a sestet

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Octave

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Eight lines rhyming abbaabba

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Sestet

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Six lines commonly rhyming cdecde

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Volta

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“Turn”

The rhetorical decision and shift between the opening 8 lines and concluding 6

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Shakespearean Sonnet

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Three quatrains and a couplet, usually rhyming abab, cdcd, efef, gg

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Sonnet Meter

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Follows the prominent meter of the language in which it’s written, in English this is iambic pentameter

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Spenserian Sonnet

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Abab, bcbc, cdcd, ee

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Traditional sonnet length

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14 lines

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Foot

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One complete unit of some metrical pattern, constructed of one heavy stress and whatever light stresses are needed for the chosen pattern

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Scansion

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The mechanical notation of the metrical pattern of a poem; syllables are marked as heavy or light to reveal the prevailing pattern

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Metrical poem components

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Rhyme, line length, pattern

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Scansion ‘

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Heavy stress (breve)

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Scansion ^-

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Light stress (macron)

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Monometer

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One-foot line

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Dimeter

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Two foot line

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Trimeter

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Three foot line

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Tetrameter

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Four foot line

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Pentameter

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Five foot line

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Hexameter

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Six foot line

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Heptameter

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Seven foot line

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Octameter

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Eight foot line

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Iamb

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Light stress heavy stress: ^- ‘

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Trochee

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Heavy stress light stress: ‘ ^-

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Dactyl

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Heavy stress 2 light stresses: ‘ ^- ^-

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Anapest

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2 light stresses heavy stress ^- ^- ‘

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Spondee — —

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Foot pattern that’s an accommodation for multi-syllable words with no inflection, where the emphasis within the foot is equally balanced “heartbreak”

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Feminine ending

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A line of verse having an unstressed and usually extrametrical syllable at the end

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Masculine ending

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A line ending in a stressed syllable

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Pure meter

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Totally regular meter

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Impure meter

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Where in one or more feet there is substantial alteration from the very specific recognizable pattern

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Catalexis

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A truncation of the final foot in a line, the foot is called catalectic

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Lame foot

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When a foot within or at the beginning of the line lacks a syllable (a light one)

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Hypersyllabic foot

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An irregular foot with an overabundance of syllables

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Anacrusis

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A hypersyllabic foot at the beginning of a line

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Pyrrhic foot

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Two light stresses

It’s always followed by a spondee, and together they’re called a double ionic

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Caesura

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A pause within the line at a logical break. It is not counted in scansion.

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Alexandrine

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Hexameter made up of only iambic feet

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Couplet

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Rhyme that occurs in consecutive lines

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True/perfect rhyme

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Words that rhyme exactly

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Masculine rhyme

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One syllable (so heavily stressed) true rhyme: bright, night

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Feminine rhyme

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Words of more than one syllable that end with a lightly stressed syllable (story, glory)

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Heroic couplet

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Two consecutive lines which rhyme and which express within them a single completed thought; at the end of the two lines some punctuation will appear. Traditionally in iambic pentameter.

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Enjambment

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The continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza

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Slant rhyme (off, imperfect)

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Rhyming words with a similar but not identical inner vowel sound.

Clack, bleak
Blade, blood

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Double rhyme

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Story, glory

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Triple rhyme

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Remember, December

47
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Multisyllabled rhymes

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They can be made up of words of unequal syllabic length so long as the syllabic stresses work out correctly:

Pleasure fills, daffodils

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Stanza

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In metrical poetry, the initial groups of lines sets the design to be followed, establishing the metrical pattern, line length or lengths, and the system of rhyme.

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Quatrain

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Four-line stanza, the most common stanza. Often abab, abcb, or abba. No one rule about line length.

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Blank verse

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Iambic pentameter without rhyme.

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Ballad form

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Loose form

4 line stanzas, often lines 1,3 tetrameter and lines 2,4 trimeter.

Sometimes one or two pairs of rhymes.

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Refrain/burden

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An additional line attached to the end of a stanza in a ballad

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Tercet

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Three rhyming (or non or partially) lines for a stanza

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Terza rima

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Three line stanza in iambic pentameter, rhyming pattern aba bcb cdc with no need of statement or grammatical completion between tercets

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Villanelle

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French form, 19 lines with 5 tercets and a final quatrain, usually in iambic pentameter. Only two rhymes and the first and third lines of the initial stanza are repeated throughout the rest of the stanzas.

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Spenserian stanza

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9 lines, 8 in iambic pentameter and the final line an alexandrine. Ababbcbcc

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Assonance

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repetition of vowels without repetition of consonants (clasps, crag)

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Similie

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Makes a comparison by saying something is like or is as something else.

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Metaphor

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Makes a comparison by saying something is something else.

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Conceit

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An extended metaphor that compares two very dissimilar things through large sections or an entire poem.

Modern lit criticism it refers to a (usually genre fiction) short phrase of a non (or rarely) existent situation needed for a plot.

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Metaphysical conceit

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An imaginative, unusual or fanciful leap made to compare two very unlike things and explore their similarities.

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Petrarchan conceit

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A conceit that makes use of more natural and less surprising comparisons, usually the beloved compared hyperbolically to extreme experiences or things.

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Major kinds of rhythm in poetry

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Common/running rhythm, and speech rhythm

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Common/running rhythm

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Assumes that comparable lines have an even number of syllables, arranged in a regular pattern of one stressed syllable alternating with one or two unstressed syllables.

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Speech rhythm

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Disregards any count of syllables, but rests on an overall symmetrical recurrence of heavy stresses, given to words or syllables according to natural speech or the sense of the line.

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Hopkin’s sprung rhythm

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Often with the same number of beats in comparable lines without an even arrangement of the unaccented syllables. A type of speech rhythm.

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Consonance

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Repetition or agreement of consonant sounds, the same consonant in any location

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