Poetry

Question 1

Iambic (feet)

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Unstressed - stressed

Question 2

Trochaic

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Stressed - unstressed

Question 3

Spondaic

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Stressed - stressed

Question 4

Anapestic

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Unstressed - unstressed- stressed

Question 5

Dactylic

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Stressed - unstressed - unstressed

Question 6

Monometer

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One foot per line

Question 7

Pentameter

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Five feet per line

Question 8

Hexameter

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Six feet per line

Question 9

Enjambement

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an enjambed line means the line continues a sentence without a pause beyond the end of that line or stanza (the pause is typically indicated through punctuation as most clauses and sentences terminate with punctuation as a boundary).

Question 10

End stopping

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an end-stopped line means the phrase, clause, or sentence is completed by the end of the line–often you see a piece of punctuation telling you to stop or pause significantly.

Question 11

Caesura

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a pause within a line of poetry, typically indicated by punctuation. Traditionally, this term meant a pause in the metrical pattern of the line.

Question 12

Ambiguity

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the presence of two or more ideas in a word, statement, image, or poem (ambiguity is another element that often characterizes poetry as a genre)

Question 13

Setting

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the time (season, time of day, historical period, etc.) and location (environment, indoors/outdoors, geography/culture) of what’s happening in the poem

Question 14

Diction

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The poet’s word choices

Question 15

Conventional acrostic

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First letter of each line spells out a word or phrase

Question 16

Telestich acrostic

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The last letter of each line is used to form a word of phrase

Question 17

Golden shovel

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The whole last word is used for the message

Question 18

Limericks Poem

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• Five line poem with a single stanza
• Telling a short playful tale with a comedic tone
  AABBA rhythm theme

Question 19

Prose poetry

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• Can take many different shapes
• Novels, plays or paragraph shape
• Can look like a conversation
• TONS of figuratives language, sound devices etc - Full of imagery

Question 20

Acrostic Poems

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“Hidden” message within the poem
- Conventional
- Double
- Abecedarian
- Mesostich (word at the middle of the poem)
- Telestich (Last letter)
- The Golden Shovel (Whole last word)

Question 21

Elegy

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• Driven by lament - often about someone who’s died - also about a relationship or a feeling that died - generally written in first person
• Really lyrical

Question 22

Sonnet

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• Theme of love
• The Italian sonnet: 14 lines - Iambic pentameter / Broken into an octave and a sestet / Rhyme scheme: AABBAABBA CDECDE or ABBAABBA CDCDCD
• The English sonnet: 14 lines - Iambic pentameter / three quatrains and a couplet / Rhyme scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
• Modern form: most modern keep the 14 lines

Question 23

Concrete Poetry

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• Contain geometrical figures shape that add to the expression of the poem
• Verbivocovisual expression
  Syllables - Letters - Punctuation - Spaces and empty spaces

Question 24

Pantoum Poetry

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Format:
Line A
Line B
Line C
Line D

Line B
Line E
Line D
Line F

Line E
Line C
Line F
Line A

Repetition
Quatrains
Changing ponctuation
2-3 stanzas (no limit for the modern one)

Question 25

Villanelle Poetry

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- Five tercets and a final quatrains - The first and third lines of the first stanza repeat alternately in the following stanzas - ABA rhyme scheme for tercets - ABAA rhyme scheme for final quatrain

Question 26

Ballad Poetry

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- Oral storytelling set to music - Used to tell stories, themes of religion, love, tragedy - Often alternate four stress and three stress lines - Show rather than tell - Rhymed ABCB quatrains

Question 27

Queer poetry

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- No rules

Question 28

Found Poetry

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- Created from other written works, typically ones that people wouldn’t see as poetic. - Two methods: Erasure or Cut Up Cut Up: Collage Erasure: blacks out or erase other words

Question 29

Nature poetry

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- Can be of any type of poetry

Question 30

Chremamorphism

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Attributing properties of inanimate objects to humans or animals

Question 31

Symbol

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An object, setting, event, animal, or person that on one level is itself, but that has another abstract or complex meaning as well beyond its literal meaning

Question 32

Allusion

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A reference to a historical, mythical, or literary person, place, event, text, etc. Outside of the poem

Question 33

Euphemism

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A type of understatement that substitutes for a word or image that might otherwise offend or hurt. Exemple: “She was at rest” when speaking of death

Question 34

Irony

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Exemple: “I love when you drool on my pillow”

Question 35

Litotes

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Use negatives to suggest the affirmative

Question 36

Metonymy

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A directly related term is substitute for an object or idea. Exemple: “We have remained loyal to the crown”

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Synecdoche

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A part of something is used to represent the whole Ex: wheels for car or saying “lend me a hand”

Question 38

Apostrophe

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Oh! - A writer or speaker addresses someone who is not present or is dead, or speaks to an inanimate object or abstract concept that cannot respond. EX: “Thank you, oven, for making this excellent bread!”

Question 39

Anthimeria (or antimeria)

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Using a word in a new grammatical form. Ex: “green tigering the gold”

Question 40

Triolet

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- Rhyme scheme: ABaAabAB - Short, 1 stanza, 8 lines - Usually satirical and humorous

Question 41

Ekphrasis

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Defined by its content - Describing, interpreting, or inferring about something tangible

Question 42

Ghazal

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- Often performed in song and deals with a wide range of moods and themes - Minimum of five couplets and max of 15 - no syllable requirement Theme of romantic love or dealing with loss - Second line, or word or phrase in it, of each couplet repeats - Last word of each couplet rhymes