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POETRY Flashcards

1
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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is
painting that speaks

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PLUTARCH

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2
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Poetry is when an emotion has found its
thought and that thought has found words.

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ROBERT FROST

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The spontaneous overflow of feelings
recollected in tranquility.

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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

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4
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Qualities of poetry

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  • written in lines
  • epistolary
    -makes use of language in heightened manner
    -vivid imagery
    -beyond what is understand
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5
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Things to remember about Poetry

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  1. concentrated thought
  2. word-music
  3. Expresses all the senses
  4. rhythm
  5. observation and imagination
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6
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This type of poetry tells a story in verse. It
is a nondramatic poem which tells a story or
presents a narrative, whether simple or
complex, long or short.

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Narrative Poetry

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7
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refers to that kind of poetry meant to be
sung to the accompaniment of a lyre, but
now, this applies to any type of poetry that
expresses emotions and feelings of the poet.

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Lyric Poetry

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8
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Heroes

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Epic

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9
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strong emotions

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Ballad

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10
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rustic and rural life

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IDYLL

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11
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Meter and rhyme; romance
e.g. FLORANTE AT LAURA

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METRICAL ROMANCE

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12
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14 lines

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SONNET

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13
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Courting someone/ about the event

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Ode

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14
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for the dead

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ELEGY

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15
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It is a poem where a story is told through the verse dialogue of the characters and a narrator

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DRAMATIC POETRY

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16
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In the end of the story, someone must die.

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TRAGEDY

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17
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Happy ending

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COMEDY

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18
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Real historical event

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HISTORICAL

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19
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This is the character in the poem.

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Persona

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20
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the point of view in the poem.

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Speaker

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21
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It is what is being talked about in the poem.
Any subject can be great in a poem depending
on the poetic style of the poet

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Subject

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22
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Is the central idea or message of a poem.

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Theme

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23
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This is the emotional atmosphere that poet
wants the readers to feel

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MOOD

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24
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Is the attitude the writer takes toward a
subject.

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Tone

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25
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Is an author’s own and unique style of saying
things. May be based on diction

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VOICE

26
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Is a group of lines that form a unit of poetry

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STANZA

27
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Is the particular ring of words in a poem.

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SOUND

28
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This refers to the structure of poems which
can be structured or free verse.

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SHAPE AND FORM

29
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Is the images evoked by the language used in
a poem through figures of speech or
figurative language

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IMAGERY

30
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are literary devices in which language
is used in an unusual way in order to
produce a stylistic effect.

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FIGURES OF SPEECH

31
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uses comparison, association, or
wordplay to play with the literal
meaning of words or to layer another
meaning on top of a word’s literal
meaning.

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TROPES

32
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makes a comparison between two
unrelated things by stating that one
thing is another thing, even though
this isn’t literally true.

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METAPHOR

33
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makes a comparison between two
unrelated things

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SIMILE

34
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pairs contradictory words in order to
express new or complex meanings.

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OXYMORON

35
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an intentional exaggeration of the
truth, used to emphasize the
importance of something or to create a
comic effect.

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HYPERBOLE

36
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a word or phrase is substituted for
another with which it’s closely
associated

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METONYMY

37
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a statement that appears to contradict
itself.

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PARADOX

38
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are mechanical—they’re figures of speech that tinker with words, sounds,
and structures (as opposed to meanings) in order to achieve an effect.

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SCHEMES

39
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the same sound repeats in a group of words

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ALLITERATION

40
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a scheme in which vowel sounds repeat
in nearby words

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ASSONANCE

41
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A verbal pattern in which the second
half of an expression is balanced
against the first but with the parts
reversed.

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CHIASMUS

42
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the repetition of sentence structure
for emphasis and balance

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PARALLELISM

43
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Are those that have a long history of use
behind them.

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TRADITIONAL POETRY

44
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Are also attributed not just to specific
poets, but also to their country of origin

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TRADITIONAL POETRY

45
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HAIKU

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JAPAN

46
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SONNET

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ITALY/ENGLAND

47
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BLANK VERSE

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ITALY

48
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VILLANELLE

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FRANCE

49
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SESTINA

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FRANCE

50
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TANAGA

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PHILIPPINES

51
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BALAK

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VISAYAS

52
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5 stresses and 5unstressed
u \ u \ u \ u \ u \
Oh no! It is an ever-fixed mark,

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Iambic Pentameter Rhythm

53
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Does not subscribe to a fixed meter or
rhyme.

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F ree Verse Poetry

54
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was a poetic movement in France (1880) led
by some of the greatest known poets such as Baudelaire,
Verlaine, Rimbaud, Mallarmé, Laforgue, Corbière.

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VERS LIBRE

55
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“No verse is free for the man who wants to do a good job.”

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T.S. Eliot

56
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contains patterns that vary from work to work.
Line lengths do not depend on the number of
syllables, and stanzas do not need to have the same
number of lines.

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FREE VERSE

57
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What ‘free’ means

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How the writer have greater control of the language.

The writer is free to make decisions on form and structure more freely and depending on their choice of topic.

58
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TRUE OR FALSE

F ree Verse is not free verse

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TRUE

59
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is the arrangement of words and phrases into meaningful clauses, sentences, or other types of grammatical units.

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POETIC SYNTAX

60
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determines the slowness or speed of a poem, the degree of meditation or energy the poem wants to evoke, and even the style of work.

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POETIC SYNTAX

61
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is composed of broken phrases that create double movement within the poem: one is compelled to pause after the line but they are also asked to move on to
the next line to complete the grammatical clause

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ENJAMBED LINE

62
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is a line presented as a syntactically complete unit.

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END-STOPPED LINES

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