Poetry Flashcards

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Poetry: Allusion

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A Refrence to some person,place,or event with literary,historical,myrhological or bibical signifiagance

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Poetry; Symbol

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An object that represents or stands for a idea or someyhing more

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Poetry; Assonace

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the repetiotion of a vowel sounds in words

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Poetry: Imagery

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descriptive writting used to envoke the senses and create an image in the readers mind

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Poetry: Sonnet

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a poem consistining of 14 lines

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Poetry: Blank verse

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an unrymed unstructured verse

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Poetry; Stanza

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A grouping of two or more lines of a poem (the chucks of a poem)

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Poetry: Rhyme Scheme

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The arrangement of Rhymes in a unit of verse

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Poetry: Couplet

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2 consecitive lines of a verse usally equal length and rhyming toghter

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Poetry: Denotation

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The Litteraal dictonary defonition of a word

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Poetry: Hyperbole

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an extreme exaggeration used to emphazies

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Poetry: Onomatopeoia

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words that imitate sounds

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Poetry: Metaphor

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a indirect comparison NOT using LIKE or AS

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Poetry: Alliteration

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the repeittion of the intial consant sound in words

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Poetry: Meter

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the recurrence of a pattern of stressed (a part of a word that you say greater emphazies on than other syllables.) and unstressed syllables

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Poetry: Personifaction

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giving a non-human things humanistic qualites or charcteristics

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Poetry: Repatition

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The repeating of lines.words,stanzas or phrases

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Poetry: Satire

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Any piece of writting which criticizes manners, indiuviduals or political social institutions by ridiculing them

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Poetry: Simile

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A dierect comparison USING LIKE OR AS

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Poetry: Ballad

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a poem with a musical quality.

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Poetry: Rhyme

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The similarity of ending sounds existing between 2 words

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Poetry: Tone

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The attitude or feeling which runs through an entire poem, the attitude which the poet takes towards a subject

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Poetry: Connotation

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secondary, implied, or associative meanings and emotions that a word carries beyond its literal definition

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Poetry: Theme

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The big idea general truth or commentary on life or people brought out through literature

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Poetry: Mood/Atmosphere

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the feeling or emotional effect created within the reader as they read the poem

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Poetry: Irony

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whenever a person says something or does something that departs from what they (or we) expect them to say or do

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Poetry: Irony

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whenever a person says something or does something that departs from what they (or we) expect them to say or do