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poetry Flashcards

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poetry genres

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epics, elegies, lyrics, sonnets, odes and hymns

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main formal features of poetry

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meter, rhyme schemes, stanzas, poetic form

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sonnet

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one stanza, iambic pentameter, 14 lines, ababcdcdefefgg

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couplet

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one line immediately follows another line and rhymes with it and shares the same meter

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haiku

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focuses ona brief moment in time and a sense of sudden illumination or enlightenment

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how many syllables in a haiku

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17 (5,7,5)

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traditional examples of haiku

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matsuo basho: an old pond
a frog jumpsin
the sound of water

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stanzas

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verses arranged rhythmically

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types of stanzas

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couplet, triplet, quatrain, sonnet

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triplet

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three line stanza

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quatrain

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four line stanza

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feet

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basic unit of measurement in poetry that follow patterns of stress or emphasis

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iams

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one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable

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trochee

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a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable

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anapest

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two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable

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dactyle

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one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables

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spondee

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two stressed syllables

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meter

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pattern of poetic stresses

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rhythm

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the sound patterns that result from the meter

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scansion

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analyzing the elmets of the lines, rhythm, and meter

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denotation

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literal meaning

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connotation

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the meaning it’s usage in he poem might suggest

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alliteration

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two or more words in a line begin with a similar-sounding syllable

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analogy

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comparing one thing to another

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apostrophe

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addressing a gone, dead, or inhuman thing as alive an dpresent

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hyperbole

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grossly over-exaggerating something for dramatic effect

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irony

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when something in a text produces an effect that doesn’t align with its stanted intent (verbal or dramatci

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onomatopoeia

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when words are use d to convey a certain sound

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pathetic fallacy

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when a narrator of a poem believes that the ourside world, especially nature, is mimicking his internal state

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synechdoche

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using a part of something to refer to the whole (all hands on deck)

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ballad

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short, song-like, quatrain, iambic, usually 8 or 6 syllables, narrative, has a refrain

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bucolic/pastoral

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middle aged; focuses on pastoral life, lots of shepherds and hseep

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doggerel

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light humorous usually bawdy

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elegy

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in dedication to something that has passed

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epic poetry

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epic, gigantic, world-spanning action

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narrative poem

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tells a story

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meaning of poetry

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content + form (the message it gives to the reader)

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what does the content of a poem refer to

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it’s language

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elements that create a poem’s content

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topic, subject matter, and theme, tone, wor choices, word order, figurative language, and imagery

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poetic form refers to

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a poem’s physical structure; what it looks like and how it sounds

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elements that creat a poem’s form

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type, stanza structure, line lengths, rhyme scheme, and rhythm

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poetic devices

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tools that a poet can use to create rhythm, enhance a poem’s meaning, or intensify a mood or feeling

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devices that enhance rhythm

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rhyme, repetition, stress or non-stressed syllables such as anapest and dactyl

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anapest

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two unaccented syllables with an accented one right after

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dactyl

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stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones

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devices that enhance meaning

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simile, metaphor, symbols, imagery

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devices that enhance mood

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onomatopoeia, personification, hyperbole, alliteration, assonance, consonance and caesura

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caesura

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a clearly defined pause

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enjambment

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starting a sentence phrase on one line and ending it on the next

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stanza enjambment

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starting a sentence phrase in one stanza and ending it in the next

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terza rima

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uses a chain-like rhyme scheme aba bcb cdc

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ballad stanza rhyme scheme

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abxb

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common meter

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sing along to Gilligan’s island theme song

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sestet

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six lines

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sestina

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39 line poem made of six sestest and one tercet. no rhyme or meter; repetition of the last wrods of the first six lines

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teleutons

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last words of first six lines of sestina

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octave

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eight lines

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ottava rima rhyme scheem

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abababcc; sestet followed by a rhyming couplet

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example of an ottava rima

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lord Byron’s comic poem don juan

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parallelism

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using similar grammatical constructions and repetition of sounds and images

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who brought attention and popularity to free verse

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walt whitman

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concrete poetry

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form of verse in which words or lines are arranged to create a physical imaage

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when did ballad become popular form

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romantic period

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famous ballad

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the rme of the ancient mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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how did ballads begin

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as folk songs

66
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Edmund spenser

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engligh poet 1552-1599- the faerie queen,

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amoretti sonnets

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“little love poems” written by Edmund spenser to woo his wife Elizabeth . between 89-100

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Petrarchan sonnets

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14 lines and two parts

octave and sestet never ending in a couplet

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