Poetry Terms And Vocab Flashcards

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Dramatic poetry

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Uses the techniques of drama to present the speech of one or more characters in verse form

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Narrative poetry

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Tells a story and has same literary elements

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Lyric poetry

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Expresses the thoughts and feelings of single spingle speaker

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Meter

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Regular pattern stressed and unstressed syllables

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Foot

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Unit of rhym

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Stanza

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Group of poetic lines formally or informally organized

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Sound devices

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Elements that adds a musical quality to the poem

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Rhyme

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Repition of sound endsof words

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Imagery

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Language using images

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Figurative languages

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Uses images words phrases evokes emotion

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Simile

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Compares two unlike things

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Personification

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Figure of speech gives human traits to nonhuman

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Oxymoron

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Combines 2 contridictory words

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Surmised

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Guessed concluded

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Eternity

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Time w out beginning or end

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Interposed

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Come between

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Affliction

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Anything causing pain and stress

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Ample

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Large in size

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Finite

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Adj having measurable or definable limits

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Infinity

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Endless or unlimited space, time or distance

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Exact rhyme

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Two or more words have identical sound in their final stressed syllables as in one/ begin

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Slant rhyme

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The final sounds are simalar but not identical as in one/ stone

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Paradox

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A statement that seems contradictory but actually presents a truth

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Epic poetry

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Tells a long story about a hero whose adventures embody the values of a nation

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Free verse

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Irregular meter and line length and sounds like natural speech