Poetry study notes Flashcards
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Diction
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Diction is careful word choice that affects a poems meaning and the way it sounds
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Couplet
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A couplet is a rhymed pair of lines
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Rhyme scheme
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The rhyme scheme is a pattern of lines at the ends of lines
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Stanza
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A stanza is a group of two or more lines that form a unit of poetry
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Form
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Form is the arrangement of a poems words and the lines on a page.
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Personification
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Personification is defined as giving human qualities to an animal, object, or idea.
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Metaphor
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A metaphor is a comparison of two unlike things without the words like or as.
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Meter
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Meter is the regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem
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Simile
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A simile is a comparison between two unlike things using the word like or as.
