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Poetry Vocab Flashcards

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A group of lines linked together often by thought

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Stanza

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What is the repetition of words with the same sound?

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Rhyme

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What is A comparison between two things using like and as?

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A simile

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What is a comparison between two things not using life and as.

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A metaphor

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What is the repetition of sounds at the beginning of words.

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Alliteration

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What is the pattern of the end of a rhyme in a poem

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Rhyme sceme

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A sound element of a poem

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Rhythm

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What is A repeated pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables?

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It is meter

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What is a pair of rhyming lines in a poem?

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Couplet

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What is A four line poem or stanza usually united by meter and rhyme?

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Quatrain

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What is the deliberate use if arranged of words to create a special effect?

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It is figurative language

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What is a comparison between two things using like and as?

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A simile

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What is a metaphor that is developed over several lines of writing?

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Extended metaphor

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What is something that stands for something else with a different meaning?

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Symbolism

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What is the repetition of a constant sound in several words in a line or stanza?

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Consonance

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What is the repetition of a vowel sound in several words

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Assonance

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What is a five line poem that is often humorous?

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A limerick

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What is a 14 line rhyming poem?

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A sonnet

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What is a meter in witch each unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable?

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Iambic pentameter

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What is a long narrative poem that tells of adventures of a hero?

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A epic

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What is a narratives that usually tells a story with tradgic events?

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A ballad

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What is poetry that focus on the emotions or thoughts of a single character?

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A lyric poem

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An over exaggeration used for effect

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It is hyperbole

23
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When you give a thing human qualities

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It is personification

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