Poetry Flashcards

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Alliteration

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Repetition of the same first letter sounds in 2 or more words. (he bravely breache’d his boiling bloody breast)

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Apostrophe

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to turn away from the general audience of a work or to address a specific group/ personal thing. Often proceeded by or or oh. (oh you gods)

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assonance

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repetition of a vowel sounds in stressed syllables. (mellow wedding bells)

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blank verse

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iambic perameer without rhyme. Verse from closest to the natural rhythms of english speech

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consonance

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repetition of the same consonant sounds in a line of texts -sound not always the letter- middle end or beginning (grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt

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connotation

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meaning implied by a word apart from what it actually means (hes such a dog (shameless/ dog)

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conplet

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2 line of a verse that follow eachother that rhyme and have the same meter (‘tis education forms the common mind
Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined)

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Denotation

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dictionary definition. objective meaning. Makes sentence clearer

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Diction

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Specific choice of words, phrases, sentence structures, figurative language which combines to create meaning

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dissonance

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Deliberate use of inharmonious words

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enjambment

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when a sentence “steps over” a lone break into the next line without pause (and yet, by heaven, I think my lobe as rare
As she believed with false compare)

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Euphemism

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mild or indirect wordds replacing harsher or more direct words (“he passed away”)

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13
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extended metaphor

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when a comparison between two unlike things continues longer

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14
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figurative language

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describing somethiong as one thing when it is another

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15
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free verse

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lines that do not rhyme, have no fixed meter

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hyperbole

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exaggeration or overstatement used to emphasize a poing rather than to be taken literally

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imagery

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descriptve + sensory words to illustrate a picture for the readers

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internal rhyme

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when middle words and end words whyme with eachother (while I nodded, nearly napping, suddenlt ther ecame a tapping)

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lyric poetry

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combinations of lyrics and poetry. can have no meaning but sounds nice

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metaphor

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indirect comparison between 2 unlike things (all the world’s a stage)

21
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meter

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sound a poem males based on patterns of syllables and stresses

22
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narrative poetry

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poem that tells a story

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paradox

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statement that is self contradictory

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personification

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figurative language is which inanimate objects or abstract concepts are given human qualities

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pun

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play on words. Words with similar or identical sounds with different meaning

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quatrain

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4 lines with rhyme

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repetition

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using something more than once

28
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rhyme

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repetition of the same sound in words or lines

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rhyme scheme

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pattern of end rhymes in a poem or stanza

30
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simile

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direct comparison between 2 unlike things by using like, as, than, or seems (my love is like a red, red rose)

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slant rhyme/ close rhyme/ approximate rhyme

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words that sound similar but dont fully rhyme (mother and father)

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speaker

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narrative voice/ voice that speaks behind the scenes

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Stanza

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structure in a poem. Group of lines seperated by a blank space (a paragraph)

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syntax

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how words from different parts of speech are put together (subject+verb+object–to— verb+object+subject) (she was beautiful) (beautiful was she)

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theme

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central meaning or dominant idea in a work

36
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tone

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attitude in which an author expressed his idea, seriousness, nostalgia, etc.