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What is a prose?

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Sentences or paragraphs

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What is a verse?

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Poetry

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What’s a simile?

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A comparison of 2 unlike things using “like” or “as”

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What’s a metaphor?

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A comparison of 2 unlike things NOT using “like” or “as”

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What is personification?

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Giving non human things, human characteristics

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What’s an oxymoron?

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Words or phrase which contradict (opposite)

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What’s a paradox?

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A sentence or statement that contradict

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What’s an allusion?

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An indirect reference to a famous event, place, object, or person back in time

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What’s an apostrophe?

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Speaking or addressing someone or something in a line of poetry

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What’s a pun?

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A play upon words

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What are the 3 forms of a pun?

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  1. A word with 2 different meanings
  2. Similarity of meaning in two words that are homonyms
  3. 2 words spelled and pronounced similarly but have different meanings
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What’s a metonymy?

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One thing is a direct substitute for another

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What is a synecdoche?

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A part that represents a whole

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What’s a free verse?

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A poem which has rhythm or rhyme

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What’s a blank verse

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2 or more lines of iambic pentameter that don’t rhyme (unrhyme iambic pentameter)

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What’s an iambic pattern?

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2 syllables; first is unstressed and second is stressed

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What’s an iambic foot?

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(Unit of measure) 2 syllables

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What’s a pentameter?

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Means 5 feet ( equal to 10 syllables)

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What a hyperbole?

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An extreme exhaggeration

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What is a hyperbole?

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An extreme exhaggeration

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What’s onomatopoeia?

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Sound of the words suggest its meaning

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What’s symbolism?

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Something represents something else

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What’s dénotation?

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The literal or dictionary meaning of a word

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What’s a connotation?

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The implied meaning of a word

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What’s juxtaposition?

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Placing 2 or more words side by side. In a Line of poetry that are unrelated

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What’s alliteration?

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The same consonant or vowel sound at the start of words

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What assonance ?

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Repetition of similar vowel sounds in a line of poetry

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What’s consonance?

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Repetition of similar consonant sounds in a line of poetry

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Whats litotes?

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Negative is stated; affirmative (positive) is meant to

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What is cacophony?

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Poem has harsh, discordant sounds

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What’s euphony?

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Poem has smooth, pleasant sounds

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What’s imagery?

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Figurative language using the five senses to create metaphors, similes, personification, vivid descriptions to produce mental pictures

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What is repetition?

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Repeating words, phrases, lines or stanzas for four possible reasons

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What are the 4 possible reasons for repetition?

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1.rhyme
2. Rhythm
3. Emphasis
4. Continuity

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What a refrain?

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Lines of poetry are repeated at regular intervals within the poem (a chorus in a song)

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What’s.a refrain?

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Lines of poetry that are repeated at regular intervals within the poem (a chorus in a song)

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What’s a stanza?

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Group of lines separated by a line space for four possible reasons

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What are the 4 possible reasons for a stanza ?

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  1. Different ideas
  2. Rhyme
  3. Rhythm
  4. Emphasis
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What’s a rhyming couplet?

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2 lines which end rhyme

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What’s a tercet?

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Three line stanza

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What’s a quatrain?

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Four line stanza

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What’s a cinquain?

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Five line stanza

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What’s a cinquain?

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Five line stanza

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What’s a sestet?

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Six line stanza

45
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What an octave?

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Eight line stanza

46
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What is satire?

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Any work which ridicules people, ideas, or institutions to make a point for reform

47
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What’s parody?

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Any work which humorously, ridicules a particular style or literacy composition through imitation purely for entertainment

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What’s a rhyme?

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Similar sounds in words positioned closely together

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What are the different types of rhyme?

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-beginning rhyme
-internal rhyme
-end rhyme
- masculine rhyme
-feminine rhyme
-triple rhyme
-eye/sight rhyme
-half/slant/imperfect rhyme

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What is beginning rhyme?

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The rhyme occurs at the beginning of two or more lines

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What is internal rhyme?

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The rhyme occurs within a single line

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What is end rhyme?

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The rhyme occurs at the end of two or more lines (most common form of lines)

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What is masculine rhyme?

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The rhyme consists of a single syllable

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What is feminine rhyme?

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Two syllables rhyme

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What is a triple rhyme?

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Three Syllables rhyme

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What is an eye/site rhyme?

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Words appear to rhyme (based on site), but they do not sound the same

Eg. creak and break

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What is a half/slant/imperfect rhyme?

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Words in which the final consonants are identical, but the proceeding vowels differ

Eg. bought and fight

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What is a rhyme scheme?

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An alphabetical labelling system used to describe the rhyming pattern in a
Poem

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What figurative language?

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The use of figures of speech, such as a metaphor, simile, personification, etc.

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What is a persona?

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-The character who narrates the poem, NOT the author
-The author creates the speaker sometimes the two resemble one another other

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What is rhythm?

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A recurrent beat it stress of the line

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What is the mood?

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The feelings the reader gets from reading the work

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What is the tone?

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The writers attitude towards the subject and the audience

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What is the voice

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-The distinctive personality of the speaker or persona, (or the author) coming through in a work
-Created through the writers choice of diction point of view, and tone

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What are the four main classes of poetry?

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  1. narrative poetry class
  2. lyrical poetry class
  3. dramatic poetry class
  4. social commentary class
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What is narrative poetry class?

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Tells about people involved in a sequence of important events (story arc) (tells a story)

67
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What do the most common narrative poems include?

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  1. Ballads
  2. Epic
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What are ballads?

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A form of verse, singing or recitation which presents a story, often about a tragic event, popular legend, courageous act, or great love

69
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What are the two main types of ballads?

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  1. Popular/traditional/folk ballads.
  2. Literary/art/modern ballads
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What’s a popular/traditional/folk ballads?

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-Early period
-usually anonymous since it’s passed on from generations
-usually sung
-tragic
-repetition

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What’s literary/art/modern ballads?

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-name of author is given
-composed by poet
-not much repetition
-not composed to be sung

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What’s an epic?

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-Long serious, narrative poem recounting the deeds of heroic figures from legends or history
-super natural forces
-Sophisticated

73
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What is dramatic poetry class?

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-read aloud or performed
-revealed through monologue or dialogue
-tragic, comedic, dramatic

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What is social commentary class?

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-society’s social habits, customs, attitudes and problems in order to promote much needed changes
Eg. Political structures, treatment of immigrants, etc

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What is lyrical poetry class?

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-most popular
-poet express his desires, feelings, emotions, or ideals
-may be joyful or painful emotion

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What are the main types of lyrical poetry?

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-short lyrical poetry
-longer lyrical poetry

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What is short lyrical poetry?

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-formula poetry (haiku, tanka, cinquain, fumante, and the limerick)
-the epigram (brief, witty statement expressed in 2 to 4 lines
-the epitaph(2 to 4 line poetic inscription on a tombstone)
-nonsensical or humorous poetry

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What is longer lyrical poetry?

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-3-8 stanzas usually
-the elegy (expresses sorrow)
-the ode (addressed to some one or thing)
-the sonnet ( has 3 characteristics)
-14 lines
-written in iambic pentameter
-has complicated rhyme scheme

79
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What are the main types of sonnets?

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-Shakespearean/ English sonnet
-Petrarchan/Italian sonnet

80
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What’s the Shakespearean/English sonnet?

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-Rhyme scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
-3 quatrains and rhyming couplet

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What’s the Petrarchan/Italian sonnet?

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-Rhyme scheme: ABBA ABBA CDECDE
-one octave and a sestet

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