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Poetry terms Flashcards

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Anaphora

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Repetition of the 1st word

EG
‘One for him and her’
‘One for they and them’

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Polysemic

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When the same word is used but a different meaning is given - poetry is often condensed.

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Antimetabole

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Words of the 1st clause are repeated and reversed.

EG
‘One for all, all for one’.

Not to be confused with Chiasmus, which are RELATED, not exactly the same.

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Chiasmus

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Related structure is repeated and reversed

EG
‘First of men, Adam’.
‘Eve, first of women’.

Not to be confused with Antimetabole.

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Cacophany and Euphony

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C - Unharmonious - constonants

E - the opposite

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Confessional poetry

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Normally free verse
A burden off the chest

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Round

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Circular poems- phrase is repeated at the start and the end
Suffocating

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Sonnet

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1 stanza - 14 lines

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Villanelles

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19 lines, 5 stanzas ABA, 1 stanza ABAA

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Caesura, enjambment and end-stopping

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Caesura - pause in the middle
End-stop - pause at the end
Enjambment - carries on

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Mneumonic

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Something to help remember

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Ballad and Couplet

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Couplet - 2 lines that rhyme
Ballad - all rhyme

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Flirt - FORM

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Ballad, sonnet, valta (shift in tone), quatrain, haiku, limerick, acrostic, triset, stanza length and no., development of turning points, repetiition, contrasts

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Flirt - LANGUAGE

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patterns, clusters, moods, tenses, verb use, punctuation

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Flirt - IMAGERY

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duh

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Flirt - RHYME, RHETORIC, METRE

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iambic pentameter, rhyming couplets, spondaic, dactylic, anapestic, contrasts, break in rhythm, half rhyme (foot, root), regular rhyme, repeated, break in

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Flirt - TONE

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Elements of the spoken voice seen in idiomatic expression, 1st narrator, symbols, motif, personification, semantic fields, onomatopoeia, shift in idea, tone, setting etc, repeated traits of language

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Dactyl metre

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/xx - musical, lyrical

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Anapest metre

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xx/ - skipping rhythm (comical)

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Trochee metre

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/x - melancholic

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Iamb metre

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x/ - conversational

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Spondee metre

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// - solemn

A level English lit (27 decks)

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