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Poetry Flashcards

Different types of poetry and technical language

1
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What is a couplet?

A

Two lines in a stanza.

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What is a stanza?

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A verse or paragraph in a way.

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What is a tercet?

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Three lines in a stanza.

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What is 3 lines in a stanza called?

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A tercet.

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5
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What is a rhyme scheme?

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Where a poem has a set rhyming pattern.

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Give an example of an ABAB rhyme scheme about cats, dogs, hats and logs (random I know)

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There was a cat
There was a dog
The cat was like a hat
The dog was like a log.
Anything where lines 1and 3 rhyme and where lines 2 and 4 rhyme.

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What is 4 lines in a stanza called?

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A quatrain.

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What is a couplet?

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Two lines in a stanza.

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What is a quatrain?

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Three lines in a stanza.

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What is one line in a stanza called?

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A monostich.

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What is a monostich?

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One line in a stanza.

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12
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How many lines does a haiku have?

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Three.

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How many stanzas does a haiku have?

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One.

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14
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How many syllables does a haiku have in total?

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17

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How many syllables does a haiku have in the first line?

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Five.

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How many syllables does a haiku have in the second line?

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Seven.

17
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How many syllables does a haiku have in the third line?

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Five.

18
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What is a haiku traditionally about?

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Nature.

19
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Where do haikus originate from?

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Japan.

20
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Who’s a famous Japanese poet from the 17th century?

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Matsumoto Bashō

21
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What did Matsumoto Bashō write?

A

The haiku ‘an old pond’

22
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What is an elegy poem normally about?

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Loss and sadness

23
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What rhyme scheme do elegy’s normally have?

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ABAB

24
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Does an acrostic poem rhyme?

A

No not always

25
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What is the main part of an acrostic poem?

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They have the theme of the poem spelt with letters throughout the poem.

26
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Who is Benjamin Zephaniah?

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A Jamaican-English poet and author.

27
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What do you normally have at the start of an analytical paragraph?

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A topic sentence.

28
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What do you call an example that you have taken from the text?

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A quote (although don’t say, ‘this quote shows’ because that’s wrong xxx)

29
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What is a synonym for shows?

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Highlights, accentuates, reinforces, emphasises, evokes

30
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What should you name when talking about a quote?

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The poetic devices.

31
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What is a metaphor?

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Where you say two different things ‘are’ each other.

32
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What is a simile?

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When you compare two things using ‘like’ or ‘as’.

33
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What should you have at the end of an analytical essay?

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The main message of the poem or text, and a reference back to your topic sentence.

34
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What does ambiguity/ ambiguous mean?

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When something has two different meanings or interpretations.

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