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Poetry Terms Flashcards

1
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Stanzas

A

Divides the poetry

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2
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Diction

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Using special words to enhance the meaning

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3
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Imagry

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Uses one of the 5 sense showing a sense of image

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4
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Mood

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The feeling the reader gets

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5
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Tone

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The authors attitude

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6
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Tone examples

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Playful
Cheerful

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7
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Theme

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Moral of the story
What it taught you

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8
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Allusion

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Refrence to a person or historical event

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9
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Anaphora

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Repetiton of a word or phrase a lot

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10
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Aphostrohe

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When the speaker adresses an object or abstract concept

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11
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Enjabment

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Contiuation of a sentence over a line break

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12
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Dramatic irony

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When the reader knows something the characters do not

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13
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Situational Irony

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The opposite of what expected occours

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14
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Verbal Irony

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Sarcasum

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15
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Juxtaposition

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Two opposing ideas are placed together

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16
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Paralelism

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Using similar gramatical structure

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17
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Paralel structure

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Using the same phrase in several sentences

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18
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Paradoy

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Imitating another work

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19
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Satire

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Using Irony to mock something

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20
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Symbolism

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Used to describe something more complicated

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21
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Anathropism

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Turning non humans into humans

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22
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Eupism

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Is the word used to sub out a word that should not be said
Period—-> time of month

23
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Hyperbole

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Hyperexageration

24
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Metaphor

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Comparason without like or as

25
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Metonoymy

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replaces one idea or thought with another in order to create emphasis

26
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Oxymoron

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Two contradicting words placed together

27
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Paradox

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Two opposite things put together to unravel a greater meaning

28
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Pathetic fallacy

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Weather reflects mood

29
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Personification

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Human characteristics given to a non living thing

30
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Pun

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A joke

31
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Similie

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Comparason with like or as

32
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Synthesisa

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Two senses mixed together

33
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Syntheodche

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Part representing the whole
I will take the wheel

34
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Understatement

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Opposite of hyperbole

35
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Alliteration

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Same letter at begining of sentence (sound)

36
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Assonance

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Repeating similar vowel sounds

37
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Caphony

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Using harsh distant sounds

38
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Euphony

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Soft soothing and pleasing sounds

39
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Caesura

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Natural break or pause

40
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Cosonance

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Similar vowel sounds

41
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Onomatapeia

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Bang

42
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End Rhyme

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At the end of the sentence

43
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Internal Rhyme

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Sounds within the line

44
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Free verse

A

Unrhymed poetry with no patern

45
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Blank verse

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Unrhymed poetry with a pattern

46
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Epic poems

A

Long narative poems

47
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Ballad

A

Straightfourward story

48
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Lyric poems

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Poets feelings

49
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Sonnet

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14 lines each having 10 rhymes

50
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Iambic pentameter

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10 rhymes in one line

51
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Dramatic poems

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Has emotional conflict

52
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Concrete poem

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The shape of the poem has a meaning

53
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Poems of comment

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Comment about whats happening in the world

20-1 LA (8 decks)

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