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Poetry Terms Flashcards

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Approximate/Slant Rhyme

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Words sound ~ but not the same
Send-when
Fellow-hallow

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Anapest;Anapestic

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Metrical foot in poetry:two unstressed syllables followed by a stress one
“‘twas the night before Christmas when all through the house”

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Assonance

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Resemblance of vowel sounds

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Blank verse

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Poetry in unrhymed iambic pentameter

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Carpe Diem

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A type of poetry with the theme of living for the day

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Conceit

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=concept
An unconventional, logically complex or surprising metaphor; requires deeper thought or further explanation
“Hills like white elephant”

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Consonance

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Repetition of consonant sounds

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Dactyl;dactylic

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Metrical foot in poetry: one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed
Take her up tenderly

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Dimeter

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Metrical line of verse with two metrical feet

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Dramatic monologue

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A speech made my a single person for the entire duration of the poem in which the speaker addresses and interacts with one or more people

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Elegy

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Mournful, melancholic poem

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End-Rhyme

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Rhyme that occurs in the last syllables of the verse

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End-Stopped line

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Phrase, clause, or sentence corresponds in length of the line; when a line is ended by a punctuation

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English Sonnet

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Shakespearean sonnet; three quatrains of iambic pentameter with alternating rhyme: abab/ cdcd/ efef/ gg

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Enjambment; Enjambed

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Continuation of a phrase, clause, or sentence into the next

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Epithet

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Word/phrase given to a person or thing used to describe a quality or characteristic

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Exact Rhyme

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Words with identical sounds

Cat & bat

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Extended metaphor

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Single metaphor that is elaborated on

=conceit

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Feminine rhyme

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Rhyme matches 2 or more syllables

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Free verse

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Poetry with no consistent patterns

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Hexameter

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Metrical line consisting of 6 feet

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Foot

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Metrical unit that generates a line of verse
‘Twas the night/before Christ/mas when all/through the house
Has 4 metrical feet

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Hyperbole;Hyperbolic

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Exaggerated figure if speech

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Iamb;iambic

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Metrical foot consisting of stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable

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Implied metaphor

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Indirect metaphor

“She barked orders”

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Internal rhyme

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Rhyme that occurs within a single line

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Italian sonnet

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Petrarchan sonnet; 14 lines split into 2 groups: 1st eight lines typicallyy abbaabba rhyme scheme and last six lines typically cdecde or cdcdcd rhyme scheme

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Litotes

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Understatement with negation

“She’s not ugly”

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Lyric Poem

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Poem typically written in present tense that expresses personal or emotional feelings

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Masculine rhyme

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A rhyme that matches one syllable

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Metaphysical poetry

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Highly intellectualized poetry marked by conceits, frequent use of paradox, complexity of thought, etc.

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Meter

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Measures arrangement of words in poetry

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Metonymy

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Figure of speech in which word or phrase is substituted for another
Colts instead of El Camino High students

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Monometer

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Verse consisting of a single metrical foot

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Narrative poem

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Poem that tells a story often through voice of the narrator and/or characters

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Octave

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Group or series of 8

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Ode

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Serious lengthy lyric poem

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Parallelism

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Parallel in structure

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Oxymoron

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Combo of two contrasting words

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Paradox

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Contradictory statement

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Pentameter

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Line of a verse consisting of 5 metrical feet

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Personification

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Giving an inanimate object or inhuman being human qualities

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Phonetic intensives

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Words whose sounds suggest an idea

“fl” sound associated with fire- flame, flicker, flash

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Prosody

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Theory or study of patterns of rhythm and sound in poetry

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Quatrain

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Stanza or poem of four lines

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Rhetorical question

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A question that is not meant to be answered

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Rhyme scheme

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Arrangement of rhymes in poem or stanza

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Run-on line

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Enjambment

No punctuation at the end of the line

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Scansion

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Rhythm of a line of verse

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