Poetry Terms Flashcards
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Dramatic monologue
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A poem that dramatizes someone’s thoughts and actions
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Blank verse
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Metrically traditional but without rhyme
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Endstop
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The line ends with a period or the feeling of a period
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Formalism
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Following traditional, given poetic forms
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Free verse
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Without rhyme or structured metrical pattern
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Meter
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The use if patterns of stressed and unstressed rhythms in a poetic line
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Ode
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A poem that commemorates or celebrates
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Scansion
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Scanning the rhythm of a line
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Slant rhyme
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Substitution of assonance or consonance for true rhyme
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Tension
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The sense of conflict
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Typographical rhythms
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The way white space creates rhythmic pauses and variations in meaning and emphasis
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Villanelle
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A 19 line form using only two rhymes and repeating two of the lines according to a set pattern
