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Poetry Terms Flashcards

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comparison of two dissimilar things (not using like or as)

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metaphor

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comparing two dissimilar things using “like” or “as”

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simile

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components of a metaphor

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tenor

vehicle

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tenor

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the subject of which the metaphor is applied

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vehicle

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the metaphorical term itself

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a metaphor where the tenor is not specified

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implied metaphor

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metaphor extended throughout a few lines of a poem or an entire poem

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extended metaphor

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giving human qualities to an inanimate object

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personification

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word choice

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diction

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emotions/associations attached to a word

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connotation

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literal/dictionary meaning if a word

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denotation

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universal symbol/ literary device

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archetype

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“seize the day” - live life to the fullest

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carpe diem

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short poem that expresses strong feeling (does not tell a story)

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lyric

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language that appeals to the five senses

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imagery

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the beat is poetry/ how stressed & unstressed syllables make the voice rise & fall

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rhythm

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a strict rhythmic pattern or stressed & unstressed syllables

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meter

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loose rhythm – no strict pattern

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free verse

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poetry that has meter

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metrical poetry

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marking the syllables in a poem to determine the meter

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scansion

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unit consisting of at least one stressed & one unstressed syllable usually one or more unstressed syllables

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foot

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insist

u. /

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iamb

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double

/. u

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trochee

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understand

u. u. /

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anapest

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excellent

/. u. u

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dactyl

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a poem that tells a story

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narrative

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a song or song like poem that tells a story

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ballad

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a fourteen line lyric poem written within very strict guidelines

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sonnet

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three quatrains
iambic pentameter
rhyme scheme - abab cdcd efef gg

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Shakespearean sonnet

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rhyming group of four lines

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quatrain

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pair of rhyming lives

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couplet

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occurs at the end lines of poetry

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end rhyme

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occurs within a line of poetry

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internal rhyme

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words that sound similar but do not rhyme

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slant rhyme

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pattern of rhymed lines in a poem

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rhyme scheme

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words that look like they should rhyme but don’t

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eye rhyme

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repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds in words that appear close together

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alliteration

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the use of a word whose sound imitated or suggests it’s meaning

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onomatopoeia

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