Poetry Glossary 1

Question 1

Alliteration

Answer 1

Repetition of the beginning of words, to create smoothness and effect, or to emphasize key words

Question 2

Allusion

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A reference to a well-known person,place,event,literary work,or work of art

Question 3

Assonance

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Repetition of internal vowel sounds in words for hearing effect

Question 4

Ballad

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Song like,narrative poetry,often dealing with adventure or romance;usually simple,rhyming verse using abcb rhyme scheme

Question 5

Blank verse

Answer 5

Unrhymed iambic pentameter

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Concrete poem

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Poem that creates an image for the reader. Message comes from arrangement and meaning of words

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Couplet,rhyming

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Two rhyming lines, usually of the same length and meter. Rhyme scheme:aa

Question 8

Couplet,heroic

Answer 8

To rhyming lines of poetry written in iambic pentameter

Question 9

Elegy

Answer 9

Poetic form lamenting the death of a person or decline of a situation

Question 10

Figurative language

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Not meant to be literally. Examples:metaphors,similes,personification

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What is poetry?

Answer 11

Poetry is the most condensed and concentrated form of pathos(literature)

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Iambic

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Unstressed,stressed

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Anapestic

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Two stressed,one unstressed

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Trochaic

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Stressed,unstressed

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Dactylic

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Stressed,2 unstressed

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Spondaic

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2 stressed

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Pyrrhic

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2 unstressed,seldom appears by itself

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Meter

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Pattern of repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry

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Verse

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Metric line of poetry.

Named according to kind,and number of feet

Question 20

Monometer

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One foot

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Dimeter

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2 feet

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Trimeter

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3 feet

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Tetrometer

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4 feet

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Pentameter

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5 feet

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Hexameter

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6 feet

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Heptameter

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7 feet

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Otometer

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8 feet

Question 28

Conceint

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Extended metaphor

Question 29

Scansion

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Marking stressed,unstressed and #of feet