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Poetry Flashcards

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1
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Alliteration

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Repetition of sounds at the beginning of words close together

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Allusion

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Referring to something outside the text (religion, mythology, history, literature)

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Apostrophe

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Words that are addressed or spoken to someone/something that can’t respond

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4
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Assonance

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Repetition of vowel sounds within words

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Cacophony/dissonance

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Effect produced by harsh unpleasant sounds

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Cliche

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Overused phrase that has lost its original impact

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Connotation

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Emotional feeling of a word

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Consonance

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Repetition of consonant sounds in a word

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Denotation

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Dictionary definition of a word

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Euphony

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Soft/pleasant sounds that flow smoothly

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Hyperbole

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Exaggeration

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12
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Imagery

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Description that appeals to the senses

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Metaphor

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Comparison that doesn’t use “like” “than” or “as”

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Onomatopoeia

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Words that imitate sounds

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Oxymoron

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Contradictory words side by side

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Paradox

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Contradictory statement that could be true

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17
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Personification

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Give human characteristics to non-humans

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Pun

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Play on words that sound the same

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Repetition

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Repetition of words or phrases

20
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Simile

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Comparison using “like” “than” of “as”

21
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Symbolism

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Object representing more than its literal meaning

22
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Synedoche

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Using a part to represent a whole

23
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Anaphora

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The repetition of a root phrase

24
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Stanza

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A paragraph in poetry

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Rhyme

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Two or more words that have the same sound at the end of the word

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Refrain

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A section of a poem which is repeated

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Rhythm

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The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry

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Tone

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What feeling or mood you get from a poem

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Narrative

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Tells a story emphasis on plot

30
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Sonnet

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14 line poem with a specific rhyme scheme

31
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Lyric

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A deeply personal poem about feeling

32
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Ballad

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A poem that is meant to be sung and has refrains

33
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Free verse

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No rhyme, rhythm or pattern but has a central focus

34
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Blank verse

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No rhyme but there is a rhythm and has the same number of beats per line

35
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Haiku

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5,7,5 syllables
- detached speaker where poet is not part of the poem
- no wasted syllables

36
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Tanka

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5,7,5,7,7 syllables

37
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Kyrielle

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  • 3 or more quatrains with specific rhyming like
    -aab abaB ccbB dbdB
38
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Ottava Rima

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8 lines each with 10 or 11 syllables
-abababcc

39
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Villanelle

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19 lines with 5 tercets, and a quatrain

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Rondel

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13 or 14 lines with two quatrains and a quintet or sestet

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