Poetry Flashcards

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literature that evokes a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience or a specific emotional response through language chosen and arranged for its meaning, sound, and rhythm

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Poetry

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derived from the Greek: poiesis, “making”/ “creating”

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Poetry

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The Greek word “poiesis” means?

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making/creating

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a type of literature that expresses ideas, feelings, or tells a story in a specific form (usually using lines and stanzas)

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Poetry

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uses aesthetic and figurative language with rhythm to express ideas and feelings

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Poetry

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arrangement of lines, spacing, and whether or not the lines rhyme in some manner

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Poetic Form

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a group of words combined together in one line of the poem

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Line

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a division of a poem based on thought or form

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Stanza

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Stanzas based on form are shown by their?

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Rhyme scheme

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a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables and occurs when the stressed and unstressed syllables of the words in a poem are arranged in a repeating pattern

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Meter

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is the basic unit of measurement of accentual-syllabic meter and usually contains one stressed syllable and at least one unstressed syllable

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Meter

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In identifying the metrical structure, combine the _______________ and the ______________.

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Metrical Pattern and the Metrical Line

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words that sound alike because they share the same ending vowel and consonant sounds

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Rhyme

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the beat created by the sounds of the words in a poem

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Rhythm

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can be created by meter, rhyme, and the other sound devices

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Rhythm

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a pattern of rhyming words in the poem and uses the letters of the alphabet to represent sounds to be able to visually “see” the pattern

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Rhyme Scheme