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Poetry Flashcards

1
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what is elegy

A

someone dies

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2
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what is ode

A

praise to something

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3
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what is a long story told in verse form

A

narrative

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4
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what is a brief personal poem that is musical and uses sound devices

A

lyric

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5
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what is a type of poem that meant to be sung and tells a story

A

ballad

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6
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what is a simile

A

2 dissimilar things that are compared using like or as

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7
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what is a metaphor

A

2 dissimilar things that are compared without using words such as like or as

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8
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what are the 3 types of metaphor

A

direct
implied
extended

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9
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what is personification

A

giving human qualities to something non human or inanimate

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10
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what is apostrophe

A

adressing something non human as if it were human

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11
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what is a reference to a person or thing from previous literature? what is one example ?

A

literary allusion

shakespeare, Bible, mythology

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12
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what is hyperbole

A

using exaggeration for emphasis, not to be taken literally

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13
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what is irony

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meaning the opposite of what is said

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14
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what is contrasting ideas, balancing or contrasting one thing against another for effect (knowledge is power and power is knowledge)

A

antithesis

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15
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what is using a part of something to represent the whole thing
(all hands on deck)

A

synecdoche

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16
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what is a substitution of one word for another closely related word

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metonymy

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17
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what is an apparent contradiction that proves to be true; a situation that seems like it doesnt make sense but when you actually think about it, it does make sense
poor little rich girl, human race

A

paradox

18
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what is a symbol

A

something concrete used to represent something that cant be touched

tree representing life

19
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what is alliteration

A

repetition of consonant sound (has to be first letter or consonant) in 2 or more words in a line of a verse

20
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consonance

A

repetition of consonant sounds that arent at the beginning of words

21
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assonance

A

the repetition of vowel sounds in 2 or more words with different consonant sounds

22
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onomatopoeia

A

use of words that imitate the sounds they define

23
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what are the 3 reasons to use repetition

A

sound
emphasis
memorization

24
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what is the repetition of one or more phrases at the end of a stanza

A

refrain

25
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what is a group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a unit

A

stanza

26
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what are the different types of rhyme

A

perfect, imperfect (slant), eye, end, internal

27
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what is an imperfect rhyme

A

words that sound similar but are not exactly the same

28
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what is an eye rhyme

A

rhyme that depends on spelling rather than sound, look like they should rhyme but dont

29
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what is an end rhyme

A

end of line in 2 or more lines

30
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internal rhyme

A

rhyme that occurs within one line of poetry

31
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what is the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry called

A

rhythm

32
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what is a pattern of repeating stressed and unstressed syllables called

A

meter

33
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what is a foot??

A

unit of meter

34
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what are the 6 types of feet

A 
iambic
trochaic
spondaic
pyrric
anapestic
dactylic
35
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what does iambic foot contain

A

unstressed/stressed

36
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what does trochaic foot contain

A

stressed/unstressed

37
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what does spondaic foot contain

A

stressed/stressed

38
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what does pyrric foot contain

A

unstressed/unstressed

39
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what does anapestic foot contain

A

unstressed/unstressed/stressed

40
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what does dactylic foot contain

A

stressed/unstressed/unstressed

41
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what is poetry

A

a rhythmic and patterned form of expressive ideas and words which have a certain and imaginative theme

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