Poetry Terms Flashcards by j m | Brainscape

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Dramatic Monologue

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Conversation between speaker & implied listener

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Elegy

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The dead or a loss

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Epic

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Celebrates hero

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Iamb

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Unaccented syllable followed by accented

Ex) today

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Idyll

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Lyric poem ideal place or time

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Lyric

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Emotion, personal feelings.

Rhyme, meter & reflective thought

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Ode

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Formal & lengthy

Celebrates a subject

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Parable

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Story teaches moral lesson. Relates to allegory

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Quatrain

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4 line stanza

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Sestina

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39 lines

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Sonnet

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14 line
With rhyme scheme

Shakespeare - mocks love
Petrarch - about love, passion

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Villanelle

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6 stanzas: 5 tercets & 1 quatrain

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Ballad

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Simple narrative with dialogue

4 lines abcd

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