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Poetry Vocabulary Flashcards

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Fixed number of stressed syllables but not a fixed total of syllables

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Accentual Meter

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Rhythmic pattern created in a line of verse

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Meter

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Fixed number of total syllables not fixed stressed syllables

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Syllabic Meter

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3
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Both sets of syllables are fixed

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Accentual-Syllabic Meter

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4
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Duration of sounds determines meter

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Quantitative Meter

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Stressed syllable followed by unstressed syllable

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Trochee

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Unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable

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Iamb

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Stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables

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Dactyl

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Unstressed syllable followed by two stressed syllables

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Analyst

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9
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Two stressed successive syllables

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Sponge

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10
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Two lightly stressed syllables

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Pyrrhic

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Five feet

Stressed then unstressed

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Iambic Pentameter

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12
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Unrhymed Iambic Pentameter

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Blank verse

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13
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Alternating tetra meter and trimeter

Iambic and rhyming

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Ballad

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14
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Does not conform to fixed meter or rhyme scheme

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Free Verse

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15
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Rhyme at the end of a line of verse

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End rhyme

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Rhyme between two or more words

“And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil” “God’s Grandeur” Gerard Manley Hopkins

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Internal rhyme

17
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Rhyme consisting of a single stressed syllable

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Masculine rhyme

18
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Consisting of a stressed and unstressed syllable

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Femine Rhyme

19
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Exact Match of sounds

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Perfect Rhyme

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Imperfect rhyme

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Slant rhyme

21
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Two successive rhymed lines

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Couplet

22
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Four line stanza

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Quatrain

23
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Grouping of three lines

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Tercet

24
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System of interlocked tercets

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Terra Rina

25
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A break at the end of a line

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End-stopped

26
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A sentence or clause runs to the next line without a break

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Encampment

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Japanese poetry
Three lines
Five syllables
Seven syllables
Five syllables
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Haiku

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Five lines
A-three lines
A- three lines
B- two lines
B-two lines
A-three lines
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Limerick

29
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Eight lines of iambic pentameter

Abababacc

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Ottawa Rima

30
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Six sets of six lines

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Setsia

31
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Octave and sestet
Abba abba cde cde
Abba cddc cdc cdc

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Petrarchan Sonnet

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Three quatrains and a final couplet
Abba 
Cd do
Efef
Gg
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Shakespearean Sonnet

33
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Abab
Bcbc
Cdcd
Ee

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Spenserian Sonnet

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19-line poem
Five tercets and a final quatrain
All carry one of two rhymes
Two refrais forming the ends of the tercets and two last lines in the quatrain

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Villanelle

Literary Criticism (5 decks)

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