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Poetry Terms Flashcards

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Verse

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A single line of poetry

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Stanza

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A group of lines in a poem

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Feet

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Units of stressed and unstressed syllables

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Meter

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A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry

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Rhythm

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A strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound.

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Rhyme Scheme

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A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem

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Couplet

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Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme

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Triplet

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3 line stanza

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Quatrain

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A four line stanza

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Sonnet

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a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.

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Iamb

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an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable

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Trochee

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stressed then unstressed syllable

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Dactyl

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a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables

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Anapest

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three-syllable foot, stress on third

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Spondee

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Two stressed syllables

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Blank Verse

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Poetry that follows Meter, normally Iambic Pentameter, but no rhyme scheme.

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Free Verse

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Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme. Can be identified with intentional line breaks and uses of parellism.

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Denotation

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the literal meaning of a word

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Connotation

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the implied or associative meaning of a word

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Alliteration

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When two ore more words with similar sounds line up

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Analogy

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A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way

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Apostrophe

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A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.

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Hyperbole

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exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

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Irony

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the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning

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Onomatopoeia

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A word that imitates the sound it represents.

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pathetic fallacy

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faulty reasoning that inappropriately ascribes human feelings to nature or nonhuman objects

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Synecdoche

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a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa

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Ballad

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A poem or song that tells a narrative through quatrains of ABAB rhyme scheme.

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bucolic, rustic, pastoral

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Poem focusing on pastoral life in the middle ages

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doggerel

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Light, humorous and sexual poem

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Elegy

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a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.

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Epic Poem

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A long narrative poem telling of a hero’s deeds

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Poetic Content

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Language within Poetry. Includes Topic, Tone, Word Choice, Word Order, Figurative Language and Imagery.

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Poetic Content: What is the Poem About?

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Topic/Subject/Theme

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Tone

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Poetic Content: What is the poet’s attitude towards a subject

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figurative language

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Poetic Content: Words that use expressions beyond their normal meanings

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Imagry

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language that appeals to the senses and paints a picture

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Form

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A poem’s physical structure: Types, Stanza Structure, Line Length, Rhyme Scheme, Rhythm

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Repetition

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Poetic Device: Repeated use of sounds, words, or ideas for effect and emphasis

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End Rhyme

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Poetic Device: A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line

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Assonance

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Poetic Device: Repetition of vowel sounds

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Consonance

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Poetic Device: Repetition of consonant sounds

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Caesura

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Poetic Device: A natural pause or break in a line of poetry, usually near the middle of the line.

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Enjambment

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the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza.

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Ballad Stanza

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consists of four lines with a rhyme scheme of a-b-c-b. The first and third lines are tetrameter and the second and fourth are trimeter.

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Sestet

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six line stanza

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Sestina

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a 39-line poem with a rhyme scheme that uses the same six end rhymes in various sequences in six sextets and a terset

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Teleuton

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Last words that repeat in each sestet

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Octave

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8 line stanza

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Ottava Rima

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Octave with a ABABABCC rhyme scheme. “Don Juan” is an example of this.

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Paralellism

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A similar grammatical structure within a line or lines of poetry like repetition.

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Walt Whitman

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Wrote Leaves of Grass and Song of Myself. Noted father of Free Verse Poetry.

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Famous Free Verse Poets

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Ezra Pound, TS Eliot, William Carlos, Allen Ginsberg

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Concrete Poetry

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Form of Poetry where words and lines are arranged into a physical image.

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Examples of Concrete Poetry

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Renaissance Religious Alter Poems and Jewish Shiviti

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Father of Concrete Poetry

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Eugen Gomringer

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Haiku

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A japanese form of poetry, consisting of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables

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English Haiku

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A version of Haiku that doesn’t follow the non-rhyming or syllable rules, but still focuses on a specific, elnightening moment in time.

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Amoretti Sonnet

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Little Love Poems written by Edmund Spencer to his future wife Elizabeth Boyle.

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Petrarchan Sonnet

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A sonnet of 14 lines divided into a ABBAABBA Octave and a Sestet with flexible scheme. Often about courting Unattainable women.

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