Poetry Terms

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Cacophony

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Unpleasant harsh sounds created by using certain words. Often requires reforming of the mouth to form the sound

Question 1

Euphony

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The choice and arrangements of words for melodious sounds

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Balance

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Grammatical parallelism

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Antithesis

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Grammatical parallelism that contrast ideas

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Chiasmus

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Inverted parallelism in which the elements of the first half of a construction appear in reverse order in the second half

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Scansion

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Analyzing the line of poetry for meter

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Meter

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The regular occurrence of accented syllables in a line of poetry

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Iambic

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A foot consisting of two syllables, the second of which is accented

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Trochaic

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Opposite of iambic. The first syllable is accented

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Anapestic

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A 3 syllable foot consisting of two unaccented syllables followed by one accented syllable

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Dactylic

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Opposite of analgesic, accented syllable follows by two unaccented syllables.

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Monometer

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1

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Dimeter

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2

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Trimeter

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3

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Tetrameter

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4

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Pentameter

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5

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Hexameter

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6

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Heptameter

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7

Question 18

Onomatopoeia

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Words that sound like what they mean

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Caesura

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Required pause in a line of poetry

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End stopped lines

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Lines that end with natural pause indicated by punctuation

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Enjambments

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Lines whose syntax and send of flow over into a flowing line

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Couplet

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Concluding lines of poetry which exemplify both caesura and enjambment

Question 23

Sonnet

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14 lines of rhyming iambic pentameter

Question 24

Blank verse

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Unrhymed iambic pentameter. The main poetic medium of Shakespeare’s plays.

Question 25

Free verse

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Verse with neither rhyme nor meter. Common in 20th century American poetry

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Haiku

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Nature and imagery. Aims to evoke mood, to convey a picture so reader can fill in what is not said

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Synaesthesia

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Mixing two or more of the 5 senses in the Same metaphor

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The river merchants wife: a letter

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Ezra pound

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In a station of the metro

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Ezra pound

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400 freestyle

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Maxine kumin

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Easter wings

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George Herbert

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Japanese haiku

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Matsu basho/moritake

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We real cool

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Gwendolyn brooks

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We who carry the endless seasons

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Virginia cerenio

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From the book of songs

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Compiled by confucius

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On reading poems to a senior class at south high

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DC berry

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Incident

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Countee Cullen

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Traveling through the dark

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William stafford

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Pied beauty

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Gerard Manley Hopkins

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Dulce et pecorum est

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Wilfred Owen

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The destruction of Sennacherib

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George London, lord Byron

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Very like a whale

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Ogden Nash

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Blackberry eating

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Galway kinnell

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On being brought from Africa to America

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Phyllis Wheatley

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Ex-basketball player

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John Updike

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The silken tent

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Robert frost