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Poetry Terms Flashcards

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Elegy

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A poem mourning the death or passing of something highly valued

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Epigram

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Short, pointed poem

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Epitaph

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An inscription on a grave stone

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Epithalamion

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A poem celebrating a wedding

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Valediction

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A goodbye

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Apostrophe

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A direct second person address to another

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Invocation

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Asking a deity to be present among humans

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Types of line widths (-meter)

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Mono (1) Di (2) Tri (3) Tetra (4) Penta (5) Hexa (6) (mono and di are rare)

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Iambic

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Unstressed, stressed

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Anapestic

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2 unstressed, stressed

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Trochaic

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Stressed, unstressed

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Dactylic

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Stressed, 2 unstressed

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Spondaic

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Stressed, stressed (heavy foot)

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Pyrrhic

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Both unstressed (light foot)

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Couplet

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Pair of rhyming lines

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Heroic couplet

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Iambic pentameter couplet that is end-stopped, and frequently pointed and witty

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Tercet

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Three line stanza

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Terza rima

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Pentameter tercel with interlinked rhymes

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Quatrain

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4 line stanza

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Sixain or sestet

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6 line stanza

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Rime Royal

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Seven line stanza in iambic pentameter

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Ottava Rima

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8 line stanza in iambic pentameter

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Spenserian stanza

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9 line stanza in iambic pentameter

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Sonnet

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14 line poem
Italian/Petrarchian= octave and sestet
English

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Shakespearean sonnet

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Three quatrains and a couplet

Ababcdcdefefgg

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Spenserian sonnet

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Same form as Shakespearean but interlocking rhyme scheme

Ababbcbccdcdee

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Enjambment

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Sticking an out of place idea in

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Hyperbole

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Exaggeration for emphasis and humor

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Apostrophe

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Speaker of poem talks to someone not there

30
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Metonymy

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Substitution of name of attribute/adjunct for that of the thing meant (crown=King)

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Synecdoche

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Part is made to represent whole or vice verse

32
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Allegory

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Can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one

33
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Aubade

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A dawn poem in which one of the lovers, usually, is waked by the sun and speaks

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