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Poetry Practice Flashcards

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stories told in verse a. Romance/lurid b. Pop songs c. Form: 4 line stanzas 1. 1st & 3rd in iambic tetrameter 2. 2nd & 4th in iambic trimeter 3. Rhyme scheme: ABX/AB

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ballads

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2 line verses (distiches) 1st line makes statement; 2nd line builds on 1st 1. Sameness – restatement of part/all 2. Antithesis – opposite statement 3. Complement – balances 2 halves of statement Themes: Praise; morals

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pslams

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  1. 3 Quatrains & rhyming couplet 2. Rhyme scheme: ABAB; CDCD; EFEF; GG 3. iambic pentameter 4. Quatrains have purpose a. 1st – Establishes theme b. 2nd – Extends theme c. 3rd – “But” d. Couplet – Resolution/closure 5. 4a-d is argument form for analysis
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Shakespearian Sonnet (English)

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  1. Octet poses problem/situation 2. Sestet poses resolution
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Petrarchan Sonnet (Italian)

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a. Every line has same # of syllables b. At least 5 couplets c. Last words of 2nd half of 2nd line are repeated in 2nd line of each succeeding couplet (radif) d. Remaining couplets don’t have to rhyme but must include the redif e. Poets signature (makhta) appears somewhere

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Ghazals

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a. Like haiku but with 2 more lines of 7 syllables each b. Haiku part focuses on observation c. Couplet focuses on reflection

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Tanka (Japan)

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a. 3 lines – usually about nature b. 5, 7, 5 syllables

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Haiku – Japanese

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sharply pointed poem; usually short

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Epigram

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Poem usually for tombstone or gravesite

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Epitaph

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Usually songlike & personal

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Lyric

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Long communal poem with hero

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Epic

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12
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Tells story

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Narrative

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Poem of lamentation or sorrow

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Elegy

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patterned repetition of strong & weak stresses in line of poetry

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Meter

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15
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duh, duh, DUH – Get Away

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Anapest

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DUH, duh, duh – Honesty

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Dactyl

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duh, DUH – Alas

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Iamb

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DUH, duh – pizza

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Trochee

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DUH, DUH – Charmed lives

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Spondee

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repetition of like sounds

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Rhyme

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last word of lines

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End rhyme

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occurs within line

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Internal rhyme

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words that look like they rhyme (bone, gone)

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Sight rhyme

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inexact or distant

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Slant, squint or virtual rhyme

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repetition of sounds based only on vowel sounds

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Vowel rhyme

26
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poetry in iambic pentameter that does not rhyme

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Blank verse

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avoidance of repetition of same line length, meter, or rhyme scheme from line to line

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Free verse

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RO of thought

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Enjambment

29
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heaviest pause in line of poetry

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Caesura

30
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based on catalog or list (“Song of Myself”)

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Catalog poem

31
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1st letter of each line creates title of poem

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Acrostic

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poem shaped like topic

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Concrete

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examining line of poetry for stress & unstressed syllables

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Scansion

34
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no restrictions on line sizes, placement, word choices, etc

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Open-form poem

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Greek: “placing crosswise”. A passage consisting of two balanced parts which have their elemnts revered, as in the allusion to the hanged fellow in Wilde’s The Ballad of Reading Gaol

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chiasmus

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A rhetorical figue in which a single word, standing in relationship to two others, is correctly related to only one.

(ex. “Kill the boys and the luggage!”)

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zeugma

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–the use of the part for the whole

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Synecdoche

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–the use of something closely related for the thing actually meant

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Metonymy

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–something that means more than what it is (Stars & Stripes, The Pledge)

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–something that means more than what it is (Stars & Stripes, The Pledge)

40
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–narrative or description that has other (ulterior) meaning than surface story

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Allegory

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–an apparent contradiction that is nevertheless somehow true

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Paradox

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