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Poetry Flashcards

1
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A regular line of stress and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry

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Meter

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2
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When you figure out the meter of a poem

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Scansion

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3
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An uninterrupted sound in a word

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Syllable

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4
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Unrhymed lines without consistent meter

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Free verse

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5
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When several words begin with the same sound

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Alliteration

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6
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Giving nonhuman things human characteristics

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Personification

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7
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A comparison of two things linking them the words like or as

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Simile

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8
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And exaggeration

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Hyperbole

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9
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A word to sound seems to express his meaning

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Onomatopoeia

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10
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And stopping by the woods on a snowy evening this symbolizes the only lasting link to the real world

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The horse

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11
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The theme of this poem is the grass is always greener on the other side

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Richard Cory

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12
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Oh somewhere in this favored Land the sun is shining bright

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Casey at the bat

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13
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These woods are lovely dark and deep but I have promises to keep

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Stopping by the woods on a snowy evening by Robert Frost

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14
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In the palm stopping by the woods on a snowy evening what do the woods symbolize

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Madness

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15
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The six the line in this poem is like

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Simile poems

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16
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By taking the first letter of each line in this palm you spell it subject

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Acrosstic

17
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Total number of lineman In a clerihew poem

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four

18
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The purpose of this type of palm is to create a picture

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Concrete

19
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The text forms a diamond

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Diamanté

20
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Was never made famous by poetry

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EL thayer

21
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Received four Pulitzer Prize

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Robert Frost

22
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Had six kids of which four died unexpectedly

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Robert Frost

23
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Was a disappointment to his parents because they wanted a daughter

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Robinson

24
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An actor performs his palm on Broadway

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EL thayer

25
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Jack London’s birth name

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John Griffith Chaney

26
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Similar to a paragraph in writting

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Stanza

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