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Poetry Terms Flashcards

1
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Alliteration

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Repetition of initial sounds

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Assonance

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Repetition of vowel sounds

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3
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Blank Verse

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Unrhymed iambic pentameter

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4
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Cacophony

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Discordant Sounds

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5
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Cadence

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The falling and rising of vocals during recitation

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Caesura

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Pause in the middle of a line of poetry

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7
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Conceit

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Elaborate metaphor

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8
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Consonance

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Repetition of consonant sounds

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9
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Controlling Image

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A literary device employing repetition so as to stress the theme of a work or a particular symbol AND/OR an image a poet uses to carry forward the sense of the poem. It shapes the nature and form of the work as well.

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10
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Couplet

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Two lines of meter in poetry

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11
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Dirge

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lament for the dead/elegy- song

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12
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Dissonance

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Lack of harmony between words

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13
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Dramatic Monologue

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A lengthy speech within a drama piece

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14
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Elegy

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Lament for the dead/similar to dirge-except it’s not in song form

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End-stopped line

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A pause or completion via punctuation at the end of a line

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16
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Enjambment

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When the meaning carries over from one line to the next

17
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Epic

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A long poem, typically one derived from ancient oral tradition, narrating the deeds and adventures of heroic or legendary figures or the history of a nation

18
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Euphony

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Musical sounds to words

19
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Foot

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A unit of measure, consisting of stressed and unstressed syllables

20
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Free Verse

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No rhyme scheme or pattern

21
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Iambic Foot

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A unit of measurement in terms of iambs… unstressed, stressed

22
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In medias res

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Begins in the middle of the action

23
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Octave

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Eight lines usually setting up a tone or problem in an Italian sonnet

24
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Pentameter

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Five metered feet

25
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Persona

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Character or speaker the poet takes on

26
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Quatrain

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Four line stanzas

27
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Refrain

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Repetition of idea/phrasing

28
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Sestet

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Six line section, usually resolving an octave in an Italian Sonnet

29
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Stanza

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Section of writing in a poem

30
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Stress

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Emphasis in Sound

31
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Trochaic foot

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Stressed, Unstressed

32
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Volta

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Turn or Shift, specifically in line 9 of an Italian sonnet

33
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End/External Rhyme

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Rhymes come at end of the lines

34
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Feminine Rhyme

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Multiple Syllable Rhymes

35
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Masculine Rhyme

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Blunt, single syllable rhymes

36
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Internal Rhymes

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RHymes are within the lines of poetry

37
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English/Shakespearean Sonnet

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ABAB, CDCD, EFEF, GG

38
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Italian/ Petrarchan Sonnet

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ABBA, ABBA

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