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Poetry Flashcards

1
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What are characteristics of poetry? (7)

A
  • usually written in verse lines
  • relatively short text form (lyric)
  • dense expression
  • more overstructured than normal sentences (structure, phonology, morphology, syntax)
  • derivation from everyday language = defamiliarisation
  • aesthetic self-referentiality
  • lyric: song-like quality, expressing subjective experience
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What kind of metrical pattern?
And justify the ways of god to man

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Iamb/x

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3
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What kind of metrical pattern?
Tiger, tiger

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Trochee X/

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4
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What kind of metrical pattern?
Cannon to right of them, cannon to left of them.

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Dactyl X//

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5
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What kind of metrical pattern?
The Assyrian came down like the wold on the fold.

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Anapaest //x

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6
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What kind of metrical pattern?
Pen-knife
heartburn

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Spondee xx

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7
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One stress per line?

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Monometer

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8
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Two stresses per line?

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Dimeter

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9
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Three stresses per line?

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Trimeter

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Four stresses per line?

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Tetrameter

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Five stresses per line?

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Pentameter

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12
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Six stresses per line?

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Hexameter

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13
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Seven stresses per line?

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Heptameter

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14
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Eight stresses per line?

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Octameter

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15
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What does iambic mean?

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Each short syllable that is not stressed is followed by a long or stressed syllable

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16
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What kind of rhythm?
Thus I
Pass by
And die,
As one,
Unknown,
And gone.

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Iambic monometer

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17
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What kind of rhythm?
The moon shines bright: in such a night as this,
When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees

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Iambic pentameter

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18
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Does a poem have an addressee?

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It can have an addressee, but it doesn‘t have to.

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19
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Does a poem have a speaker?

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Yes, always.

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20
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Whats rhyme?

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Two different words with identical sound from the last stressed syllable onwards

21
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Whats a one-syllable rhyme?

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Day/way

22
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Whats a two-syllable rhyme?

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Winning/spinning

23
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Whats a three-syllable rhyme?

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Mathematical/Attic all

24
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Whats a continuous rhyme?

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Aaaa bbbb

25
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What are rhyming couplets?

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Aa bb cc

26
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Whats alternate rhyme?

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Abab

27
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Whats embracing rhyme?

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Abba cddc

28
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Whats tail rhyme?

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Aab ccb

29
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Whats a leonine rhyme, or internal rhyme?

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There was a rustling that seemed like a bustling (in the same line)

30
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Whats a half-rhyme, or slant rhyme?

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It seemed that out of battle I escaped
Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped
Through granites which titanic wars had groined.
(Based on consonants)
= type of rhyme with words that have similar, but not identical sounds

31
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What rhyme pattern is that?
Aaaa bbbb

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Continuous rhyme

32
Q

What rhyme pattern is that?
Aa bb cc

A

Rhyming couplets

33
Q

What rhyme pattern is that?
Abab

A

Alternate rhyme

34
Q

What rhyme pattern is that?
Abba cddc

A

Embracing rhyme

35
Q

What rhyme pattern is that?
Aab ccb

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Tail rhyme

36
Q

What rhyme pattern is that?
There was a rustling that seemed like a bustling

A

Leonine rhyme, internal rhyme

37
Q

What rhyme pattern is that?
It seemed that out of battle I escaped
Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped
Through granites which titanic wars had groined

A

Half-rhyme, slant rhyme

38
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Whats the definition for a slant rhyme?

A

Type of rhyme with words that have similar, but not identical sounds

39
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Whats a sonnet?

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Short lyrical poem of 14 lines

40
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How did the sonnet come to England?

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16th century: It came to England from Italy. England first tried to copy Italian sonnet (translation, imitation).

41
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How is the Italian sonnet constructed?

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Octave and sestet (division also used for content division)

42
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How is the English sonnet constructed?

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3 quatrains, 1 couplet

43
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English sonnet: What does the couplet contain?

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Some kind of punch-line (f.e. Summary, comment)

44
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Italian sonnet: What kind of rhyme scheme?

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Embracing rhyme for octoave: abba abba
Variation for sestet: cde cde (cce dde, ccd eed, etc.)

45
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English sonnet: What is the rhyme scheme?

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Alternate rhyme for quatrains + final couplet abab cdcd efef gg

46
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Italian sonnet: What comes after the octet?

A

The volta

47
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How can defamiliarisation be achieved?

A

Breaking syntactical or connotational rules.

48
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What is meter?

A

Defined by the kind and number of feet, a particular sequence of stressed and unstressed syllables

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