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Poetry Flashcards

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Longfellow

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Christmas bells

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At the sea side

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Rob Louis Stevenson

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Billy Collins

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Intro to poetry

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Robert Francis

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The base stealer

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Edgar Allen Poe

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The raven

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Basho

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Autumn lost dude frog

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Buson

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Leaves gathering

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Issa

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Winter loser

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Intonation-

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sarcasm

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Stanza-

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paragraph division of poem

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Rhyme-

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repitition of sounds in poetry

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Metrical foot-

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repeating power of stressed or unstressed syllables. 2 or three syllables unstressed or stressed. Shakespeare used Iambic pentameter.

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Repitition-

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purposeful effect any word or phrase that repeats

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Illiteration

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is the repeated sound. Originally was stressed syllable has a stressed sound

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Consonance

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repeating sound

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Lyric poetry-

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a poem set to music originally the lyre

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Free verse-

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needs rhythm and still needs to adhere to the common set up of poetry makes you think

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Haiku-

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usually about nature 575 syllable breakdown usually something called a cutting sharp turn usually the last line is a contrast to the rest of the poem

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Kijo-

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somewhere in the poem there is a word or phrase that references the season of the poem

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Form-

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style of poem; syllable count

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Genre-

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what the content is about

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Onomatopoeia

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: the naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitation of the sound associated with it (as buzz, hiss)

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Imagery

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Being very descriptive

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Diction

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.verbal description

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Personification

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Figures of speech (metaphor, simile, idiom

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X

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Steps of explication

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  1. Read
  2. What is going on
  3. Literary devices
  4. Rhyme stuff

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