Poetry Flashcards

1
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What’s a poem

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An arangement of word to creat a strong feeling through meaning, sound, and rhythm

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2
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What are lines

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Rows of word, don’t always follow rules

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3
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Stanzas

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Groups of lines set apart by spaces, fits overall structure of the poem

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4
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Rhyme

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Same ending sound

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5
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Rhythm

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Stressed and unstressed syllables in a line, beat

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6
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Meter

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Recurring pattern

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7
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Repetition

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Repeating of word or lines in poetry

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8
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Alliteration

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Repetition of an initial consonant sound

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9
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Simile

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Comparithat uses like or as

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10
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Metaphor

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Does not use like or as

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11
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Personification

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Human qualities to no living things

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12
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Symbolism

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Thing to stand for something else

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13
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Allusion

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Referring to another work

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14
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Point of view

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Position or outlook from witch the speaker or observes something

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15
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Speaker

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The narrator of the story

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16
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Theme

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Central idea that a poem explores

17
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Tone

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Mood the poem creats

18
Q

Lyric poem

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Mood the poem short like a song

19
Q

Ode

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2 or more stanzas

20
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Haiku

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Very short poem in 3 lines usually about the narrator

21
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Sonnet

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Fourteen lines, first 8 lines created an idea, last 6 questions the idea

22
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Ballad

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Stanzas of 2 to 4 and a refrain that repeates

23
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Free verse

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Does not follow any rule of rhythm or rhyme

24
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Denotations

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Dictionary definition

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Connotations
Implied by words