Poetry Terms

Question 1

Narrative Poetry

Answer 1

Poems that tell a story

Question 2

Lyric Poetry

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It is a meditation, reflects thoughts and feelings of a single speaker. (NOTHING to do with song lyrics)

Question 3

Free Verse Poetry

Answer 3

No regular rhythm or meter but uses the natural rhythms of speech

Question 4

Formal Poetry

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Uses traditional forms like the sonnet, or forms created by the poet

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Stanza

Answer 5

Grouping of lines

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Quatrain

Answer 6

4 line stanza

Question 7

Speaker

Answer 7

Used in poetry, like a narrator in prose. The persona speaking the poem

Question 8

Penultimate

Answer 8

Next to last

Question 9

Ars Poetica

Answer 9

Poem about the art or craft of writing poetry

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Metaphor

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One thing is described in terms of another (ex. The boat plows through the water)

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Simile

Answer 11

One thing described as similar to another - using ‘like’ or ‘as’

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Image

Answer 12

Language that appeals to at least one of the 5 senses

Question 13

Alliteration

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The repetition of consonants in the beginning of proximate words

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Conceit

Answer 14

Extended metaphor in poem

Question 15

Tercet

Answer 15

3 line stanza

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Anaphora

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Repetition of a word or phrase in the beginning of proximate lines

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Post-Colonial Literature

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Writing that examines the effects of a dominating power and how that power has exploited people and resources

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Prose Poem

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A poem written in prose, marked by condensed and figurative language

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Abstraction

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Noun that can’t be touched (ex. Love, hope, fear…)

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Couplet

Answer 20

2 line stanza

Question 21

Sonnet

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14 lines, often in iambic pentameter. Traditionally a love poem

Question 22

Octave

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8 line stanza

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Sestet

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6 line stanza

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Meter

Answer 24

Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables

Question 25

Enjambment

Answer 25

When a sentence continues onto the following line for reversal or effect