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Poetry Final Flashcards

1
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What is allusion?

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Using a well known figure or character as a comparison or reference for some type of meaning.

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What is Apostrophe?

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Addressing someone or something that is absent, abstract or inanimate.

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What is Oxymoron

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Presenting an idea containing two opposite individual meanings.

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What is a ballad?

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A story of someone or something that took place presented in a song or poem base on true facts.

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What is repetition?

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Repeating the same word over and over to enhance effect

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What is Figurative language?

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Every one of the poetic devices and their meanings.

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What is Free verse poetry?

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Poetry that is written with no rules and can be however long and doesn’t require a rhyme scheme.

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What is irony?

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When the opposite of what expected happens, three types-
Verbal- when it’s in dialogue
Situational- sarcasm
Dramatic- audience knows something actors don’t

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What is a Stanza

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A “paragraph” in a poem or song. Each stanza is usually between 3 and 6 lines and has to go with the same ideas in each stanza.

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Lyric poetry?

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When poems are put to music and sung

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Hyperbole?

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Exaggerating an idea or object to to make a story more interesting or funny

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What is a pun?

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A joke that has more than one meaning(also can be ironic)

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What’s mood?

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The emotions or overall feeling you get from a story

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Narrative poetry?

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Any poem which is telling a story or a event

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Onomatopoeia?

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Noises or sounds produced using words, known as sound words.

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What is tone?

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The voice of the reader or author of the writing piece

17
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Personification?

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Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects

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Rhythm?

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The beat or flow of a poem

19
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Rhyme?

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Words that end in the same format(same spelling or sounds) that flow together

20
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Rhyme scheme?

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The order of which the words rhyme, for example: ABBA

21
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What is a simile?

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A comparison of two things using like or I as.

22
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Symbolism?

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The use of traditional or symbolic words the represent things to gain meaning

23
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Metaphor?

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A comparison of two things NOT using like or as.

24
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Who are the following poems written by:
Hurt?
The Winds Cries Mary?

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Johnny Cash

Jimi Hendrix

25
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What poems are written by:
Johnny Cash?
Gordon Lightfoot?
Bruce Springsteen?

A

Hurt

The Wreck Of the Edmund Fitzgerald

The Meeting Across The River

26
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What are the following answers of the poem: THE WINDS CRIES MARRY.

  • What are the main poetic devices used in the writing?
  • what is the overall plot of the writing?
  • what is the meaning of the writing?(can be up to you, meanings are mine, can be anything if you can back it up)
A

Poetic devices- personification, metaphor, rhythm/ rhyme, symbolism, oxymoron, irony and repetition.

Overall plot- when happiness goes away, seriousness comes out. It explains the writers depressed viewpoint on life, and has to do with a buttload of wind.

Meaning- it’s time to look at the past and future of your life seriously, also can be looked upon as depressed.

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What are the following answers of the poem: THE MEETING ACROSS THE RIVER.

  • What are the main poetic devices used in the writing?
  • what is the overall plot of the writing?
  • what is the meaning of the writing?(can be up to you, meanings are mine, can be anything if you can back it up)
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Poetic devices- mainly symbolism

Overall plot- a literal or figurative meeting which is taken place through a tunnel, or river. He needs help from his friend, they both prepare for the worse. Need money. May die.

Overall meaning- he is willing to do anything for needed money, which means dieing or imprisonment.

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What are the following answers of the poem: HURT.

  • What are the main poetic devices used in the writing?
  • what is the overall plot of the writing?
  • what is the meaning of the writing?(can be up to you, meanings are mine, can be anything if you can back it up)
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Poetic devices- mainly symbolism(pictures of childhood, pouring of wine and “needle tears a hole”

Overall plot- starts off at uplifting childhood, turns quickly into what he has become. Old, at the end of life.

Overall meaning- either suicide, death or just the end of something, he is hurt.

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What are the following answers of the poem: THE WRECK OF THE EDMUND FITZGERALD.

  • What are the main poetic devices used in the writing?
  • what is the overall plot of the writing?
  • what is the meaning of the writing?(can be up to you, meanings are mine, can be anything if you can back it up)
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Poetic devices- rhythm, ballad, symbolism.

Overall plot- Boat, departed with crew and load. Rough storm made it sink, now in memory.

Overall meaning- a boat sank in the water, or how nothing is perfect and Mother Nature rules.

30
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What is alliteration?

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The repetition of the same beginning sounds in each word of a sentence.

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