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Poetry Terms Flashcards

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Repetition of a vowel sound to create internal rhyming with in phrases or sentences

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Assonance

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Repetition of the same sound at the beginning of a word

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Alliteration

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Repetition of the same consonant sound two or more times in short succession

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Consonance

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3
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Two lines in a poem that rhyme

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Couplet

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Continuation of a phrase or sentence across a line of poetry

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Enjambment

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5
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No rules, Lines irregular and may or may not rhyme, develops it’s own rhythm naturally

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Free verse

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6
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Extreme exaggeration

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Hyperbole

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7
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Unstressed stressed, 5 feet

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Iambic pentameter

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contrasting two things to emphasize one

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Juxtaposition

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Comparing two object

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Metaphor

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10
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How the reader feels

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Mood

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Words that imitate an actual sound

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Onomatopoeia

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12
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Words are imperfect aural correspondence

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Perfect rhyme

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13
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Describes something inanimate with human qualities

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Personification

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To create clear images, to produce sound/create rhythm, to tell a story

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Purposes of poetry

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15
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Four lines in a stanza

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Quatrain

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Rhyme words at the end of a line, Repetition of rhyme throughout the poem

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Rhyme scheme

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Similar rhyme, but lack in perfect correspondence

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Slant rhyme

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Presence of strongly emphasized s, sh, ch, z, or j

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Sibliance

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Comparison using like or as

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Simile

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Three lines in a stanza, any rhyme scheme

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Tercet

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How’s the author feels

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Tone

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Six lines in a stanza

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Sestet

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Seven lines in a stanza

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Septet

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Narrator tells the story vs the author who just writes the story

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Narrator vs author

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