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a piece of writing that partakes of the nature of both speech and song that is nearly always rhythmical, usually metaphorical, and often exhibits such formal elements as meter, rhyme, and stanzaic structure.

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Poem

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the measured flow of words and phrases in verse or prose as determined by the relation of long and short or stressed and unstressed syllables.

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Rythm

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a distinct emphasis given to a syllable or word in speech by stress or pitch.

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Accent

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Verse whose meter is determined by the number and alternation of its stressed and unstressed syllables, organized into feet. From line to line, the number of stresses (accents) may vary, but the total number of syllables within each line is fixed. The majority of English poems from the Renaissance to the 19th century are written according to this metrical system.

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Accentual-syllabic verse

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The rhythmical pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in verse.

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Meter

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The basic unit of measurement of accentual-syllabic meter.

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Foot

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A metrical foot consisting of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable. The words “unite” and “provide” are both examples.

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iambic

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A metrical foot consisting of an accented syllable followed by an unaccented syllable. Examples of these words include “garden” and “highway.

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Trochaic

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A metrical foot consisting of an accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables; the words “poetry” and “basketball” are both examples.

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dactylic

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An end-stressed meter consisting of three syllables per foot.

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Anapestic

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commonly used metrical line in traditional verse and verse drama. The term describes the particular rhythm that the words establish in that line.

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Iambic pentameter

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A line consisting of one metrical foot.

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Monometer

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A line of poetry consisting of two metrical feet.

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Dimeter

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A line of poetry consisting of three metrical ‘feet’.

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Trimeter

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A line of poetry consisting of four metrical ‘feet’.

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Tetrameter

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A line of poetry comprising of five metrical ‘feet’.

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Pentameter

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A line containing six metrical ‘feet’.

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Hexameter

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A line of poetry containing seven metrical ‘feet’.

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Heptameter

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Verse without formal meter or rhyme patterns.

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Free Verse

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Verse that does not employ a rhyme scheme.

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Blank Verse

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The effect produced when similar vowel sounds chime together and where the final consonant sound is also in agreement e.g. ‘bat’ and ‘cat’.

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Rhyme

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A stanza compromising of 2 lines.

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Couplet

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A stanza compromising of 3 lines.

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Triplet

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A stanza compromising of 4 lines

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Quatrain

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A stanza compromising of 5 lines.

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Quintet

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A stanza compromising of 6 lines.

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Sestet

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A stanza compromising of 8 lines.

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Octet

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One or more lines that make up the basic units of a poem - separated from each other by spacing.

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Stanza

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Either where a word in the middle of a line of poetry rhymes with the word at the end of the line.

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Internal rhyme

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Occurs with feminine or three-syllable words where the initial accented syllables rhyme but the unaccented syllables don’t e.g. ‘nearly’ and ‘clearing’ or ‘wilderness’ and ‘building’.

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Half Rhyme

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This occurs where the end words of a line are spelled similarly e.g. ‘love’ and ‘move’ but don’t chime together as rhymes.

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Eye Rhyme

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Where a poet repeats exactly the same word to create a rhyme. This is usually regarded as ‘bad form’ unless the repetition serves a particular purpose.

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Identical Rhyme

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the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse.

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Rhyme Scheme

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The effect created when words with the same vowel sound are used in close proximity - but where the consonants in these words are different.

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Assonance

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The effect created when words share the same stressed consonant sounds but where the vowels differ.

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Consonance

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A break in the flow of sound in a line of poetry e.g.

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Caesura

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Line runs from one end to another.

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Enjambment

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Specific, literal word usage rather than metaphorical or figurative language.

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Concrete language

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an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
“the word “discipline” has unhappy connotations of punishment and repression”

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Connotation

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A poem in which the characters or descriptions convey a hidden symbolic or moral message.

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Allegory

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The ‘tone’ of a poem (according to the New Critics) reveals the attitude of the poet being studied e.g. anger, love, resignation, despair, fear, boredom etc.

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Tone

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a long poem, typically one derived from ancient oral tradition, narrating the deeds and adventures of heroic or legendary figures or the history of a nation.

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Epic

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a form of poetry which tells a story, often making use of the voices of a narrator and characters as well; the entire story is usually written in metred verse. The poems that make up this genre may be short or long, and the story it relates to may be complex. …

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Narrative Peotry

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Term originating from the Portuguese word balada meaning ‘dancing-song’. However, it normally refers to a simple song.

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Ballad

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Term originally derived from the Greek word meaning ‘for the lyre’ and indicating verses that were written to be sung. However, more recently the term ‘lyric’ has been used to refer to short poems, often written in the ‘I’ form, where the poet expresses his or her feelings e.g.

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Lyric poetry

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Comes from the Greek word meaning song.

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Ode

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Poem written to lament the dead

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Elegy

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A fourteen line poem usually in iambic pentameters (see meter) consisting of an octave and a sestet. The octave presents and develops the theme while the sestet reflects and brings the poem to a conclusion.

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Sonnet

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Descriptive poetry is the name given to a class of literature belongs mainly to the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries in Europe. From the earliest times, all poetry not subjectively lyrical was apt to indulge in ornament which might be named descriptive. …

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Descriptive poetry

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It can make you laugh, or has witty or silly, nonsensical humor in it. It does not necessarily have to make you laugh, but it’s fun to.

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Humorous poetry

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poetry in which the meaning or effect is conveyed partly or wholly by visual means, using patterns of words or letters and other typographical devices.

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Concrete poetry

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Where a poem makes reference to another poem or text.

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Allusion

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A poem related to or per attaining to religion.

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Religion

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Classical Poets/Poetry Pre-Christian Roman and Greek poets such as Homer, Horace, Virgil, Ovid etc.

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Classical

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sub-genre of poetry that has its roots in history. Its aim is to delineate events of the past by incorporating elements of artful composition and poetic diction.

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Historical

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Concerning the writing or study of literature, especially that of high quality.

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Literary

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Repeating the same words or phrases a couple of times to make the point clearer.

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Repetition

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The effect created when words with the same initial letter (usually consonants) are used in close proximity.

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Alliteration

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Phrases or sentences placed side by side which exhibit repetition of structure or meaning. particularly a feature of religious verse (especially Hebrew) or of incantations. A more modern example is the beginning of T.S. Eliot’s Ash-Wednesday
‘Because I do not hope to turn again
Because I do not hope
Because I do not hope to turn’

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Parallelism

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An imaginative comparison between two actions/objects etc which is not literally applicable.

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Metaphor

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The explicit comparison of two objects/phenomenon/states etc - by employing either ‘as’ or ‘like’ e.g. ‘

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Simile

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the state of being strikingly different from something else, typically something in juxtaposition or close association.

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Contrast

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Figure of speech employing ironic understatement which affirms something by denying its opposite.

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Understatement (litotes)

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Figure of speech whereby inanimate objects or abstractions are given human characteristics.

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Personification

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Exaggeration for dramatic effect.

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Hyperbole

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Poem which is directly addressed to a person or thing (often absent).

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Apostrophe

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Figure of speech where the name of the object being described is substituted for something closely related to it. For example, ‘the crown’ is often substituted for ‘the monarchy’. Other examples include ‘the press’ for newspapers and ‘the bench’ for the judiciary.

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Metonymy

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Figure of speech where a part is made to stand for the whole.

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Synecdoche

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All five senses (using representative words)

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Synaesthesia

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Sound effects

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Onomatopoeia

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a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing.

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Euphemism

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uncertainty or inexactness of meaning in language.

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Ambiguity

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a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings.
“the pigs were a squeal.

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Pun

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a word or phrase open to two interpretations, one of which is usually risqué or indecent.

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Double entendre

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a statement or proposition that, despite sound (or apparently sound) reasoning from acceptable premises, leads to a conclusion that seems senseless, logically unacceptable, or self-contradictory.

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Paradox

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a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction (e.g., faith unfaithful kept him falsely true ).

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Oxymoron

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the expression of one’s meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.

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Irony

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In congruency between what is said and what is meant *sarcasm

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Verbal irony

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(theater) irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play

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Dramatic irony

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an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect.

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Parody/satire

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Poem about pastures and rural life

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Pastoral poetry

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