Poetry Flashcards

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type of literature where words and rhythm are strung together

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poetry

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4 features of poetry

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-central theme
-mental images
-provokes thought
-has elements

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similar rhythm and rhyme; division of poem with set of lines

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stanza

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2 stanza

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couplet

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ex of stanzas

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-couplet
-tercet
-quatrain
-cinquain
-sestet
-septet
-octave
-sonnet

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3 stanza

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tercet

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4 stanza

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quatrain

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5 stanza

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cinquain

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6 stanza

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sestet

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7 stanza

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septet

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8 stanza

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octave

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14 stanza

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sonnet

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line of poem or group of lines

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line

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subdivision of poem

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line

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author chosen to end line

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line break

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2 line break

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-enjambment
-end-stopped line

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end line with incomplete thought

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enjambment

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end line with complete thought

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end-stopped line

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rhythm that continuously repeats

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meter

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single basic pattern

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meter

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words end with similar sounds usually at end

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rhyme

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unit of rhythm

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meter

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resemblance of sound

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rhyme

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types of rhyme

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-perfect
-consonant
-assonant
-head
-eye

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final stressed vowel of all following sounds are identical

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perfect rhyme

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rhyming consonant in words with diff vowels

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consonant rhyme

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rhyming vowels but diff consonant sounds

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assonant rhyme

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same initial constant at beginning

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head rhyme

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words similar in spelling but not soiund

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eye ehyme

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occur at ending words of lies in a poem

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rhyme scheme

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following a pattern known as

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rhyme scheme

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