Poetry Terms Flashcards
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A poem that tells a story. It contains characters, a plot, conflict. and a setting
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Narrative poetry
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a poem that recreates an event through dialogue or monologue as well as the use of description
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dramatic poetry
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a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry. (iambic, trochaic, dactylic, or anapestic)
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meter
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the alternation of stressed and unstressed syllables in language
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rhythm
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the repetition of vowel sounds in accented syllables and all succeeding syllables
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rhyme
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words that have some correspondence of sound but not an exact one.
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slant rhyme
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in general, a discrepancy between appearances and reality
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Irony (dramatic, situational, verbal, cosmic)
