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Poetry Flashcards

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Alliteration

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Repetition of same sound at the start of a series of words

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Allusion

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Reference to a person, place, thing, event, or any literary work.

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Apostrophe

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Addressing an absent person/thing

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Ambiguity

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Words, statement, situation with 2 or more meanings

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Analogy

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Comparing unrelated things to clarify

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Assonance

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Repetition of vowel sounds w/o repeating consonance

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Ballad

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A written piece that is meant to be sung

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Ballad Stanza

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Four line stanza (2/4 line rhymes, 3 stress)

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Blank Verse

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No rhyme but metered lines

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Cacophony

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Mixture of harsh and inharmonious sounds

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Caesura

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Stop/pause in the middle of a verse, marked be punctuation

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Concrete Poem

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Visual matches topic of poem

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Connotation

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Secondary meaning implying feels (word carries beyond literal definition)

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Consonance

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resemblance in sound in the middle of 2 words (i.g. bed, bad)

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Couplet

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Pair of rhyming lines, usually the same length

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Didactic

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Poetry that instructs (moral, wisdom, religion)

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Dissonance

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use of impolite, harsh-sounding, and unusual words in poetry

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Dramatic Monologue

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Form of speech of an individual to themselves

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Elegy

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Poetry that reflects on death or loss

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Epic Poem

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long narrative, recounting heroic deeds

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Epigram

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Short witty statement, rhetorical device that is a memorable, brief, interesting, and surprising satirical statement

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Epitaph

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Brief writing on a tombstone

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Euphemism

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Lighter way of saying something

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Euphony

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Words that sound pleasing/kind/nice

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Figure of Speech/Figurative language

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Not literal

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Free Verse

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Lacks consistency

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Hyperbole

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Overexageration for emphasis

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Iambic Pentameter

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rhythm pattern of ten sulastes/line, alternating of stress / wastressed

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Imagery

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Description that creates a picture in the reader’s mind

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Internal Rhyme

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Rhythm that occurs in the middle of a line

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Irony

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Contrast between realitt and expectations

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Limerick

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5 lines in a stanza using the rhyme scheme: AABBA

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Lyric

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Musical verse that conveys feelings/emotions

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Metaphor

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Comparing two things with “like” or “as”

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Extended Metaphor

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A metaphor but it continues in a series of lines

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Mixed metaphor

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2+ dissimilar metaphors that are fused for comparison

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Metonymy

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A figure of speech where the name of object replaced with closely related word

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Mock Epic

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Satires or parodies that mock common classical stereotypes of heroes and heroic literature

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Motif

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Reoccuring Symbol

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Mood

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Feelings that readers get from the written work

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Narrative Poem

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Tells an entire story: characters, plot, conflict, resolution, setting

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Ode

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A formal/serious poem for occasions (lyrical but not lengthy)

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Octave

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8 line, Iambic pentameter

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Onomatopoeia

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Words that suggest sounds

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Oxymoron

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Opposite words placed side by side for effect

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Paradox

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A self contradictory statement that is true

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Parody

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Imitation/exaggeration of an original work for comedy effect

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Pastoral

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Idealize nature and countryside

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Personification

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Objects that are given human qualities

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Poetic Justice

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when someone receives the same outcome that they did to someone else

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Poetic License

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International departure from facts/traditional structure

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Prose

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Writing that is not poetry

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Pun

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Play on words

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Quatrain

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A verse completed in4 rhyming lines

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Rhyme

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Similar sounding words at particular vowels

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Rhyme Scheme

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Rhyme pattern in poem

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Rhythm

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Flow of a poem

58
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Satire

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Ridicule to make sense

59
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Sestet

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6 lines forming an stanze

60
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Simile

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Comparison using “likes”

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Sonnet

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14 lines, iambic pentameter that expresses a thought or idea

62
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Stanza

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group of lines in poetry (like a paragraph in an essay)

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Stress

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Emphasis on certain syllables and not others

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Surrealism

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Artistic attempt to write reality and imagination

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Symbol

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Something that represents something else

66
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Tone

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Poets attitude in writing

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Synecdouche

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Apart of something stands for a whole (I got wheels → I got a car)

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Understatement

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Intentionally making something seem less important that what it is

69
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Verse

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Collection of metrical lines in poetry

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Wit

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Humor based states to pass judgement and make laugh

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