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Poetry Vocabulary Flashcards

1
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Alliteration

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Repetition of initial consonant sounds

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Allusion

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Making a reference to something well known

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3
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Blank Verse

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unrhymed Iambic Pentameter

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Connotation

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The Implied Meaning of a word,phrase, line or piece

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5
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Couplet

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A rhymed two line poem or stanze of a poem

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Denotation

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the dictionary definition of a word without feeling or emotion

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7
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Diction

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word choice

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8
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foot

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basic unit of measure

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free verse

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poems with no rules (no set rhyme scheme, no set syllable, count, etc(

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Haiku

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Threeined Japanese poem with five syllables in the first line, seven in the second, five in the last

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11
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hyperbole

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an exagggerated statement that makes a point

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auditory imagery

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creates a picture using sounds

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13
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Gustatory Imagery

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Creates imagery using taste

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14
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Olfacotry imagery

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Creats Smell imager

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Tactile Imagery

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Creates a picture using touch

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Visual imagery

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Creates a picture for the reader to see in his mind

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Metaphor

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a comparison of two things not using like or as

18
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meter

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Is the regular pattern of stressed and unstreessed syllables tha tmake up a line of poetry

19
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Narrative poem

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A poem that tells a story

20
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Onomatopoeia

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A word that is a sound

21
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Paradox

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A statement that seems absurd but is true in a nonliteral sense

22
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Parody

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A word that keeps the strucutre of another work but then makes fun of the originals

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Personification

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Giving non thinking objects human qualities

24
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portmanteau

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A word created by blending multiple words

25
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Similie

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A comparison using like or as

26
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Sonnet

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A fourteen lined poem with aspecific rhyme scheme

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Speaker

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The voice of a poem

28
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Stanza

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A paragraph of poetry (group of Lines)

29
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Symbol

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Something the represents something else

30
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Understatement

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A statement that underrepresents something for effect of the opposite of a hyperbole

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