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Poetry Terms Flashcards

1
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Repeating initial consonant sounds

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Alliteration

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2
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Referring to something familiar to ready

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Allusion

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3
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Brief pointed witty saying

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Aphorism

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4
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Absent or dead person is addressed

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Apostrophe

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5
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Repeating vowel sounds

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Assonance

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6
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Poem telling story in verse form, sentimental/romantic

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Ballad

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7
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Unrhymed iambic pentameter

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Blank verse

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8
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Harsh discordant sound in literature

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Cacophony

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9
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Timeworn overused saying

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Cliche

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10
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Near rhyme

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Consonance

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11
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Pair of rhymed lines

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Couplet

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12
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Poem w/convo b/w speaker & implied listener

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Dramatic monologue

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13
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Poem lamenting loss of dead

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Elegy

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14
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Line w/pause at end, often , .

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End stopped line

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15
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Long narrative poem telling deeds of a hero

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Epic

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16
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Short witty verse in prose

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Epigram

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17
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Combining words to have a pleasant sound

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Euphony

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18
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Story/poem w/moral lesson

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Fable

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19
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Words/expressions readers aren’t supposed to take literally

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Figurative language

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20
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Kinds of non-literal devices

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Figures of speech

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21
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Poetry w/o rhyme scheme, meter, or form

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Free verse

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22
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Japanese poem, 5 7 5

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Haiku

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23
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Extreme exagerration

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Hyperbole

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24
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Language appealing to 5 senses

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Imagery

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25
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One of two types of poetry, expresses thoughts & opinions

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Lyric poem

26
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Comparing two unlike things w/o using like or as

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Metaphor

27
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Using something very closely related to stand for the word you mean

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Metonomy

28
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Feeling created by story

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Mood

29
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One of two main types of poetry, tells a story

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Narrative poem

30
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Extreme form of realism, focusing on sordid side of life

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Naturalism

31
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Eight lined stanza

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Octave

32
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Formal lengthy poem w/elevated style

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Ode

33
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Using words to imitate sound they describe

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Onomotopeia

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Image of contradictory terms

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Oxymoron

35
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Seeming contradiction which actually reveals the truth

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Paradox

36
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Giving non human things human characteristics

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Personification

37
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Arranging words in lines often w/rhythm & meter

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Poem

38
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Ordinary form of written/spoken language

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Prose

39
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Play on words cuz 2 words have similar sound

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Pun

40
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Four line stanza

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Quatrain

41
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Attempt to portray life as it really is w/o sentimentalizing it

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Realism

42
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Repeating similar sounding words in a poem

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Rhyme

43
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Pattern of rhyme

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Rhyme scheme

44
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Line has no natural end, keeps going

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Run on line

45
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Writing which ridicules some aspect of behavior

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Satire

46
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Comparison b/w unlike things w/o using like or as

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Simile

47
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Arranging 2+ lines of poetry w/regular patterns of length, rhythm, rhyme

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Stanza

48
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Something that has a meaning itself but stands for something else too

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Symbol

49
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Using a part to represent the whole

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Synecdoche

50
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Saying less than what you mean

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Understatement

51
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Line of poetry

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Verse

52
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Unaccented, accented, unaccented

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Amphribraic

53
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Unaccented, unaccented, accented

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Anapestic

54
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Accented, unaccented, unaccented

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Dactylic

55
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Basic unit of rhythm

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Foot

56
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Unaccented, accented

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Iambic

57
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Number of times a foot is repeated in a line of poetry

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Meter

58
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Musical quality created by syllables

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Rhythm

59
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Analyzing rhythm/meter poem

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Scansion

60
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Accented, accented

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Spondaic

61
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Accented, unaccented

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Trochaic

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