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Poetry Flashcards

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Poetry

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One of three major literary genres of imaginative literature, which has its origins in music and oral performance and is characterised by rhythm and syntax; compression and compactness; an allowance for ambiguity; an emphasis on the sensual qualities of words and word order; and figurative language

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Narrative poem

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A type of poem in which a narrator tells the story

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Dramatic poem

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A type of poem in which a speaker addresses a silent auditor or auditors and creates a setting and situation that is revealed entirely through the speakers words

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Lyric poem

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A relatively short poem in which the speaker addresses his or her thoughts and feelings in the first person

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Convention

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A characteristic feature of a particular literary genre

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Sonnet

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A fixed verse form that consists of 14 lines, usually in iambic pentameter

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Elegy

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A formal lament on the death of a person, but focussing mainly on the speakers effort to come to terms with his or her grief

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Epic

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A long, narrative poem that celebrates the achievements of heroes and heroins that uses elevated language and a grand style

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Chivalric romance

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A long, medieval narrative in verse or prose, written in one of the romantic languages, that follows the quests of chivalric heroes and the vicissitudes of courtly love

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Ballad

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A verse narrative that is originally meant to be sung

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Rhyme

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Repetition or correspondence of the ending sounds of words

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Masculine rhyme

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Rhyme that only involves a single stressed syllable

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Feminine rhyme

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Rhyme that involves two rhyming syllables, the last one being unstressed

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Alliteration

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The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words

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Free verse

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Poetry that lacks traditional meter, has varying line lengths and the lines don’t rhyme

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Meter

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The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry

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Mnemonic devices

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Memory devices built in poems to help memorising them

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Formalist/neo-formalists

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Traditional poets who suggest that good poetry requires formal elements and discipline

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End rhyme

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When the last words in two or more lines rhyme with each other

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Rhyme scheme

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The pattern of end rhymes in a poem

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Couplet

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Two consecutive lines of verse linked by rhyme and meter

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Heroic couplet

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couplet with iambic pentameter

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Internal rhyme

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when a word within a line of poetry rhymes with another word in the same line or a line nearby

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perfect/true/full rhyme

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rhyme that requires that words share consonants and vowel sounds

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off/half/near/slant rhyme

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rhyme that’s slightly ‘off’, usually because words final consonant sounds correspond, but not the vowels that precede them

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eye/sight rhyme

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words that don’t actually rhyme, but look as if they do

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onomatopoeia

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a word written like the sound that it describes

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consonance

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the repetition of certain consonant sounds in close proximity (mike likes his new bike)

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assonance

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the repetition of vowel sounds in a sequence of words with different endings (uncertain rustling of purple curtains)

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anaphora

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figure of speech involving the repetition of the same word or phrase in successive lines, clauses or sentences

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iamb

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an unstressed syllable, followed by a stressed one

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trochee

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a stressed syllable, followed by an unstressed one

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anapest

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two unstressed syllables, followed by a stressed one

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dactyl

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a stressed syllable, followed by two unstressed ones

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rising or falling

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the feet either begin or end with the stressed syllable

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spondee

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two stressed syllables

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pyrrhic

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two unstressed syllables

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scansion

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the process of analysing and marking verse to determine its meter

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stanza

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a section of a poem that often has a single pattern of rhyme and/or meter

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terza rima (third rhyme)

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a verse form consisting of three-line stanzas, in which the second line of each stanza rhymes with the third and first of the next. It’s an iambic pentameter

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Spenserian stanza

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a stanza consisting of eight lines of iambic pentameter, and a ninth line in iambic hexameter

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ballad stanza

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stanza form that consists of a quatrain in which lines 1 and 3 are unrhymed iambic tetrameter and lines 2 and 4 are rhymed iambic trimeter

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rhyming couplet

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any pair of consecutive lines that share end rhymes

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blank verse

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the verse form most like everyday speech, consisting of unrhymed lines in iambic pentameter

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haiku

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a verse form that consists of 17 syllables, arranged in 3 lines of 5, 7 and 5 syllables

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limerick

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poem consisting of mainly anapestic lines, of which the first, second and fifth are of three feet; the third and fourth lines are of two feet.

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villanelle

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a verse form consisting of 19 lines divided into 6 stanzas, 5 tercets and 1 quatrain

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palindrome

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word, sentence or poem that reads the same back and forward

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sestina

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verse form written in blank verse, that consists of 6 stanzas of 6 lines, and a final 3 line stanza

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concrete poetry

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poetry in which the words on the page are arranged to look like an object

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spatial organisation

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where words fall on the page, which results in line endings and beginnings getting more of our attention

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analogy

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when a simile dominates an entire poem

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