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Poetry Terms Flashcards

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Elegy

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Poem mourning the dead.

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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 gravestone.

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Epithalamion

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A poem celebrating a wedding.

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Nocturne

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A night scene.

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Pastoral

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A poem spoken by a shepherd, loosely in the countryside.

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Valediction

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A goodbye.

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Reproach

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Address in a way to express disapproval.

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Lament

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An expression of grief or sorrow.

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Invocation

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Asking a deity to be present among humans.

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Prosody

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The measure in which poetry is written (counted lines in units called feet)

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Iambic

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Unstressed, stressed metrical scheme.

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Anapestic

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2unstressed,stressed scheme

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Trochaic

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Stressed,unstressed scheme

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Dactylic

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Stressed,2 unstressed scheme

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Spondaic

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Stressed,stressed scheme

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Pyrrhic

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2unstressed scheme

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Heroic couplet

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Iambic pentameter couplet that is end stopped

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Terza Rima

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Pentameter tercet with interlinked rhymes.

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Rime royal

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7 line stanza in iambic pentameter.

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Ottava Rima

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8 line iambic pentameter.

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Spenserian stanza

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9 line form in iambic pentameter.

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Sonnet

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14 line poem.

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Shakespearean sonnet

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Consists of 3 quatrains and a couplet.

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Spenserian sonnet

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Same form as Shakespearean, but interlocking rhyme scheme.

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Sestina

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A pentameter poem consisting of 6 stanzas of 6 lines with repeated end words plus a 3 line coda.

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Villanelle

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A poem of 5 pentameter tercets rhyming aba, followed by a quatrain rhyming abaa.

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Ode

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Has no set form, defined by its content (exalted tone, lofty or sublime).

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Agency

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The subject is the agency of the verb.

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Emjambent

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Continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line.

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Alliteration

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Same letter or sound

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Allegory

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A poem that delivers a moral meaning.

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Acrostic

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A poem, where parts of it form words.

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Ars poetica

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A poem where Horace advises poets on the art of writing poetry.

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Aubade

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A dawn poem in which 1 of lovers is waked by the sun and speaks.

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