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Poetry Terms Flashcards

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Allusion

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Brief reference to a person, place, thing, or idea of significance

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Ambiguity

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Word, statement, or situation with two possible meanings

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Anapest

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Metrical foot in a line of a poem that contains 3 syllables where the first two syllables are short and unstressed followed by a third syllable that is long and unstressed

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Antithesis

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Two terms, phrases, or ideas that contrast or have opposite meanings (love and hate)

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Approximate rhyme/slant rhyme

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Same overall sound but different letters

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Assonance

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Repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming with phrases

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Aubade

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Song or poem about lovers separating at dawn

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Audience

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Who the poem is directed towards

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Ballad

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Narrative poem typically arranged in quadrains

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Blank verse

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Poem with no rhyme

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Alliteration

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Repetition of speech sound in a sequence of words that are close to each other

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Cacophony

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Mixture of harsh and inharmonious sounds

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Caesura

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Rhythmical pause in the middle of a line of poetry

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Carpe diem

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Seize the day

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Conceit

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Metaphor that compares two things in a clever way

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Connotation

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Meaning implied that is different than the explicit meaning

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Consonance

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Repetitive sound produced by consonants in close proximity

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Couplet

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Pair of lines with the same meter

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Dactyl

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Long syllable followed by two shirt syllables

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Denigration

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Literal meaning of a word

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Diction

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Word choice

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Dimeter

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Line of poetry with two metrical feet

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Dramatic monologue

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A single persons speech

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Dramatic situation

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Underlying plot line to place characters in conflict

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Elegy

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Sad poem written for a dead person

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End rhyme

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Lines ending with the same sound

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End-stopped rhyme

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Line of poetry ends with punctuation

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English sonnet/Shakespearean

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14 line poem with several rhyme schemes

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Enjambment

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Incomplete syntax at the end of a sentence

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Epithet

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Adjective or phrase used to express the characteristic of a person or thing

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Euphony

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Smooth, pleasant sounding choice of words

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Exact rhyme

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Repetition of same stressed vowel sounds

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Extended metaphor

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Comparison extended throughout several sentences

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Feminine rhyme

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A rhyme that matches two or more syllables

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Foot

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Contains one stressed syllable and at least one unstressed syllable

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Free verse

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Poetry free from regular meter or rhyme

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Hexameter

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Metrical line of six feet, most often dactylic, and is Greek or Latin

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Hyperbole

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A figure of speech that exaggerates

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Iambic

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Unaccented and shirt syllable followed by a long accented syllable

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Implied metaphor

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Compare two thins without mentioning them

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Internal rhyme

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Line where middle and end words rhyme

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Irony

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Situation or use of language involving words used in a way different from their intended meaning

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Italian/Petrarchan sonnet

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14 lines that are divided into two parts

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Litotes

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Employs an understatement by using double negatives

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Lyric poem

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Has musical rhythm, often romantic

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Masculine rhyme

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Rhyme is in the stressed final syllable of the word

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Metaphysical poetry

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Concerned with the whole experience of man

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Meter

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Unit of rhythm

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Metonymy

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A word or phrase that stands for another word

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Narrative poem

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Tells a story

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Octave

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Consists of 8 lines of iambic pentameter

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Ode

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Lyrical poetry expressing emotion and addressing someone

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Oxymoron

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Two opposites are joined to create an effect

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Paradox

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Statement that appears to be self contradictory

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Parallelism

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Sentences that are grammatically similar or of identical structure

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Pentameter

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A line that has 5 strong metrical feet or beats

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Personification

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Nonhuman thing is given human qualities

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Phonetic intensives

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A word that suggests it’s meaning

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Quatrain

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Verse or small poem consisting of 4 lines

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Rhetorical question

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Question that is asked without expecting an answer

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Rhyme scheme

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Pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem

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Run on line

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Incomplete syntax

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Scansion

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Process of marking the stresses in a poem to understand the meter

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Sestet

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Name of the second division of an Italian sonnet

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Simile

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Comparison using like or as

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Slant rhyme

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Stressed syllables of ending consonants match but vowel doesn’t

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Sonnet

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14 lines, each line has 10 syllables and is written in iambic pentameter

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Speaker

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Voice of the poem

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Spondee/spondaic

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Beat of a line that contains two accented syllables (stressed-stressed)

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Stanza

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Grouped set of lines within a poem set off from other stanzas

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Synecdoche

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Part of something that represents a whole

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Syntax

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Word order and the way it works with grammatical structure

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Tercet

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Three lined stanza of pen that often contains a rhyme

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Theme

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Main idea or message

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Tone

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Authors attitude towards the subject

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Trimester

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Verse written in lines of 3 metrical feet

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Trochee/trochaic

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Metrical foot consisting of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed one

78
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Villanelle

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19 line poetic form consisting of five tercets followed by a quatrain

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Volta

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Turn of thought or argument

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Zuegma

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Using one word to link two thoughts or modify two words

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