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poetry terms Flashcards

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NARRATIVE

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A long story told in verse form; an epic is an example of a narrative poem

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LYRIC

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A brief, personal poem that uses many sound devices, as well as rhythm and meter, and is filled with emotion; sonnets, odes and elegies are types of lyrics

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BALLAD

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A type of poem that is actually meant to be sung and is both lyric AND narrative in nature

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RHYMED VERSE

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Has regular meter and rhyme scheme

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BLANK VERSE

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Unrhymed iambic pentameter

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FREE VERSE

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No regular metrical rhythm or end rhyme

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FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

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Words or phrases that describe one thing in terms of another and is not meant to be taken on a literal level

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SIMILE

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A comparison between two dissimilar things using words such as “like,” “than,” “as,” or “resembles.”

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METAPHOR

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A comparison between two unlike things

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DIRECT METAPHOR

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A comparison in which the literal term and figurative term are both named

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IMPLIED METAPHOR

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A comparison in which the literal term is named and figurative term is only implied

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EXTENDED METAPHOR

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A comparison – direct or implied – that is developed over more than one line of poetry

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SYMBOL

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Something (object, person, situation or action) that means more than what it is

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SYNECDOCHE

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Using a part of something to represent the whole

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METONYMY

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The substitution of one word for another closely associated word

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MOTIF

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Any recurring element that has symbolic significance to a literary work

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PERSONIFICATION

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Giving human or animate qualities to an animal, an object or a concept

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APOSTROPHE

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Addressing someone absent or dead or something nonhuman as if it were alive and present and could reply

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PATHETIC FALLACY

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Using the setting, or nature, to parallel or mirror the mood of a character or of the story

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LITERARY ALLUSION

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A reference to a person, place or thing from previous literature (often Biblical, mythological, Sheakespearean)

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HYPERBOLE

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Exaggeration used for emphasis; overstatement

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LITOTES

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A special form of understatement; it affirms something by negating the opposite

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ANTITHESIS

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The pairing exact opposite or contrasting ideas in a parallel grammatical structure

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PARADOX

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A seemingly contradictory or absurd statement that may actually be true

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OXYMORON

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A short phrase in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction

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IMAGERY

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Language that appeals to any of the five senses

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ALLITERATION

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Repetition at close intervals of the initial consonant sounds of certain words

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CONSONANCE

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Repetition at close intervals of middle or end consonant sounds of certain words

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ASSONANCE

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The similarity and repetition of vowel sounds of certain words at close intervals

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ONOMATOPOEIA

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The use of words that mimic their meaning in their sound

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REPETITION

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Repetition of a word or a phrase within a poem in order to make it easier to remember, emphasize an important idea, and give the poem structural unity

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PARALLELISM

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In poetry, the repetition of words or phrases in two or more lines

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ANAPHORA

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In prose, the repetition of a word or phrase; typically found in writing at the beginning of successive sentences

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CATALOGING

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The listing of words, images, or attributes

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REFRAIN

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Repetition of a word, phrase, or line(s) at definite intervals in a poem, similar to a chorus in a song

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STANZA

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A group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit

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ENJAMBMENT

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The continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line or stanza

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END-STOPPED LINES

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Lines in which both the grammatical structure and the sense reach completion at the end

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CAESURA

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A pause within a line of verse, usually marked by punctuation

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INVERSION

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The rearranging normal word order to emphasize a certain word or maintain meter and rhyme

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PERFECT RHYME

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Repetition of accented vowel sound and all succeeding sounds

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IMPERFECT RHYME

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Rhyme in which there is only a partial matching of sounds (also called near rhyme or slant rhyme)

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EYE RHYME

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Rhyme that appears correct from spelling but does not rhyme because of pronunciation

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END RHYME

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Rhyme that occurs between words found at the ends of two or more lines in a poem

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INTERNAL RHYME

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Rhyme between words that occurs within a single line of poetry

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RHYME SCHEME

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The pattern of end rhyme throughout a poem; marked with corresponding letters for each rhyming match

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METER

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The regularized pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry; the intentional arrangement of language in which the accented syllables occur at equal intervals of time

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SCANSION

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The process of marking lines of poetry to determine the meter; that is, marking the accented and unaccented syllables, dividing the lines into feet, identifying the most common type of foot, and noting significant variations from that pattern

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FOOT

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The basic unit of meter; either consisting of 2 or 3 syllables

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