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Poetry Terms Flashcards

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Alliteration

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the repetition of initial consonance sounds in poetry

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Allusion

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A reference to a well-known person, place, event, or thing from history

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Assonance

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The repetition of initial vowel sounds in poetry

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Autobiography

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Form of nonfiction in which a writer tells his/her own life story

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Biography

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A form of nonfiction where an author writes about the life story of another person

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Connotation

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All meanings or emotions suggested by a word

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Denotation

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The literal definition of a word

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Dialect

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Way of speaking; characteristics of a specific area of group of people

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Diction

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An author’s choice of words

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Epic

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Long narrative poem about the deeds of a hero

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Figure of speech

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Writing or speech not meant to be taken literally

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Flashback

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Going back in time for exposition

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Foil

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A character who provides contrast for another character

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Foreshadowing

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The use of clues to tell what is going to happen in the near future

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Imagery

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The descriptive or figurative language used in literature to create word pictures for the reader

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Irony

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The difference between what is expected to happen and what is going to happen

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Metaphor

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Figure of speech in which one thing is spoken as though it were something else

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Nonfiction

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Purpose writing that presents and explains ideas

Tells about real people, places, events, and ideas

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Novel

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An extended work of fiction

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Onomatopoeia

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The use of words that imitate sounds

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Personification

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A type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human like characteristics

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Pun

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Two words that sound alike but have different meanings

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Setting

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The time and place of the action

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Symbol

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An object that stands for itself as well as representing something else

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Ballad

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A poem that is meant to be sung

26
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Dramatic

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Conversation between two people in a poem

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End rhyme

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Occurs when the rhyming words come at the end of the lines

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Free verse

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Poetry with no rhyme or meter

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Haiku

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Three-line verse poem

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Iamb

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A foot with one unstressed syllable followed by stressed

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Lyric

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Has musical quality that expresses one thoughts or feelings at speaker

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Meter

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Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables

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Narrative

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A poem that tells a story

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Ode

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A lyric poem on a serious subject, usually written in precise structure

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Quatrain

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A stanza consisting of four lines

36
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Rhyme

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Repetition of sounds at the end of words

37
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Rhyme scheme

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A pattern of end rhyme in poetry

38
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Rhythm

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A pattern of beats in a spoken or written language

39
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Simile

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Comparison of two words using “like” or “as”

40
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Slant rhyme

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Formation of words with similar but not identical sounds

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Sonnet

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A lyric poem written in iambic pentameter

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Speaker

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A imaginary voice in a poem

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Stanza

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A group of related lines in a poem

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Tone

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The authors attitude toward the subject or reader

45
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Blank verse

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Unrhymed poetry written in a meter called iambic pentameter

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Couplet

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2 consecutive rhyming lines in poetry

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Form

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Gives structure to the experiences or events it describes

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Free verse

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Poetry with no rhyme or meter

49
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Iambic pentameter

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A verse written in 5 iams per line

Iam - unstressed followed by stressed

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Mood

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Feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage

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Narrative poem

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Poem that tells a story

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Paradox

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A state,net that contradicts itself because it appears to be not true but actually is

53
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Parallelism

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The repetition of grammatical structure in order to create a rhythm

54
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Refrain

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A stanza that is referred back to after every word

55
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Repetition

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Use of ant element of a language more than once

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