Poetry Knowledge - Poetry structures Flashcards
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Anaphora
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A device that repeats a sequence of words at the beginning of neighbouring sentences
2
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Caesura
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A pause in a line of poetry
3
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Enjambment
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A thought or sense, phrase or clause, in a line of poetry that does not come to an end at the line break, but moves over to the next line
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Epistrophe
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Repetition of phrases or words at the ends of the lines or sentences
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Juxtaposition
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The act of when two things are placed side by side for comparison
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Quatrain
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A set of 4 lines
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Rhyme
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Two or more words or lines have similar final sounds
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Stanza
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A division of 4 or more lines in a poem
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Volta
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The turning point of a poem
