Poetry Quiz Flashcards

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What are techniques?

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Tools the wrier uses to create impressions

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What are impressions?

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The larger ideas that are created through combing techniques

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Verbal Irony

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Sarcasm; has to do with word choice

ex. Snowman singing about summer

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Situational Irony

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An impression created. Surprises the audience at the same time as the characters

ex. The not so Prince Charming

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Dramatic Irony

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Audience knows something that the characters do not.

ex. Romeo and Juliet

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Hyperbole

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Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally

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Understatement

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The presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is

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Paradox

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A statement or proposition that, leads to a conclusion that seems senseless, logically unacceptable, or self-contradictory

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Quatrain

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Stanza with 4 lines

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Couplet

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Stanza with 2 lines

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Octave

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Stanza with 8 lines

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Sestet

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The last six lines of a sonnet

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What is the rhyme schemes of an Italian Sonnet

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One set of rhymes for the first half that are different than the second half.

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What is the rhyme scheme of an English Sonnet?

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A sonnet of 14 lines in iambic pentameter.

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Enjambment

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To read smoothly from line to line

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End Stop

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Pauses at the end of a line

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Caesura

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A strong pause or break in a line

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Iambic Pentameter

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Lines that have 5 beats, and 2 syllables per beat

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Paradox vs. Oxymoron

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P: “It was the best or times, it was the worst of times…”
O: Jumbo Shrimp, Little Big Burger, etc.

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Lyric

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A poem that coveys emotion

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Elegy

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An expression of grief

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Ode

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A lyric poem written for someone or something

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Villanelle

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A nineteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout

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Sonnet

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A poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes

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What is the main idea of Baby Born Holding Heart in Hand?

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~Patricia Smith wanted to share a moment of strong emotion through a sonnet
~Appeal to heart over mind
~Wanted to make an impact, stay with you- unlike a newspaper article