poetry terms 2

Question 1

The basic unit used in the scansion or measurement of metrical verse.

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Foot

Question 2

external pattern or shape of a poem, describable without reference to its content, as continuous form, free verse.

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form

Question 3

nonmetrical poetry in which the basic rhythm unit is the line, and in which pauses, line breaks, and formal patterns develop organically forms the requirement of the individual poem rather than from established poetic forms.

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free verse

Question 4

japanese verse in three lines of five, seven and five syllables, often depicting image.

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haiku

Question 5

lyric poetry describing the life of the shepherd in pastoral, bucolic, idealistic terms.

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idyll

Question 6

a rhyme in which the rhyme words occur within a single line.

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internal rhyme

Question 7

a fixed form consisting of five lines of anapestic meter

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limerick

Question 8

a general category of poetry written to entertain, such as lyric poetry, epigrams, adn limericks.

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light verse.

Question 9

a narrative poem designed to be sung composed by a single author.

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literary ballad

Question 10

a narrative poem designed to be sung composed by a single author.

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literary ballad

Question 11

subjective, reflective poetry with regular rhyme scheme and meter which reveals the poet’s thoughts and feelings to create a single, unique impression.

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lyric

Question 12

the regular patterns of accent that underlie metrical verse; the measurable repetition of accented and unaccented syllables in poetry.

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meter

Question 13

a figure of speech in which something closely related is used to represent the thing actually meant.

Life came spilling out of my body.( life represent blood)

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metonymy

Question 14

nondramatic, objective verse with regular rhyme scheme and meter which relates a story or narrative.

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narrative

Question 15

elaborate lyric verse which deals seriously with a dignified theme

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ode

Question 16

a brief poem that focuses on scenes from rural or pastoral life.

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pastoral

Question 17

consists of an octave and a sestet.

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Petrarchan sonnet

Question 18

a play on words which are identical or similar in sound but have sharply diverse meanings.

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pun

Question 19

a repeat word, phrase, line, or group of lines, normally at some fixed position in a poem written in stanzaic form.

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refrain

Question 20

the pattern or recurrence of stressed and unstressed syllables

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rhythm

Question 21

repetition of the accented vowel sound and any succeeding consonant sound.

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rhyme

Question 22

any fixed pattern of rhymes characterizing a whole poem or its stanzas

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rhyme scheme

Question 23

a line which has no natural speech pause at its end, allowign the sense to flow uninterruptedly into the succeeding line

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run-on-line

Question 24

a kind of literature that ridicules human folly or vice with the ostensible purpose of bringing about reform or of keeping others from falling into similar folly or vice

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satire

Question 25

the processe of measuring metrical verse

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scansion

Question 26

this term describes the character who speaks to the reader or an imagined audience in the poem .

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speaker

Question 27

the form taken by a poem when it is written in a series of units having the same number of lines and usually other characteristics in common.

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stanzaic form

Question 28

a part of something is used to signify the whole, or the whole is used to signify a part.

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Synecdoche

Question 29

two things being seen or placed close together with a contrasting effect.

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Juxtaposition