Poetry Terms

Question 1

Closed form

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Regularity in rhyme, metre, and line length

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Open form

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No regularity in rhyme or meter, generally called free verse

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Narrator

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The speaker and implied author of work from whose perspective we perceive

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Couplet

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A pair of rhymed lines

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Refrain

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A phrase or line(S) that is repeated

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Stanza

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The divisions or units of a poem

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Meter

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recurring accents in line, sometimes called rhythm

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Ambiguity

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If something does not have a clear meaning or it has several into interpretations its is ambiguous

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Assonance

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The repetition of similar vowel sounds in words

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Consonance

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The repetition of similar consonant sounds in nearby words

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Alliteration

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The repetition of sounds that start with words nearby

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Sibilance

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The production of a hissing S sound

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Cacophony

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A harsh discordant mixture of sounds to create disunity

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euphony

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Harmonious sounds that are pleasing to the ear

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Enjambement

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When a line runs onto the next

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Repetition

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The repeating of particular words or phrases

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Onomatopoeia

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Words that sounds like what they describe

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Oxymoron

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I figure of speech in which contradictory terms appear side-by-side

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Literal and figurative language

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Literal language is exactly what the words say, figurative language the words have another meaning

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Irony

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Something contradictory or opposite to what is expected, often causing wry amusement

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Personification

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Endowing inanimate it objects, ideas or animals with human characteristics

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Simile

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A figure of speech that explicitly compares two things indicated by words such as like and then and as

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Metaphor

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A figure of speech that compares two things without explicitly indicating