Terms Flashcards

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Accent

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Stressed syllable

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Alliteration

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Repetition of Consonants

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Anaphora

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Repetition of some words at the beginning of lines - like Whitman’s Song of Myself

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Assonance

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Repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds. I.E. “Time held me green…”

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Blank Verse

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Lines with unrhymed iambic pentameter. Most widely used verse of poetry b/c it is closest to natural rhythms of English Speech.

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Caesura

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Pause or break in a line of poetry

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Concrete Language

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Appeals to our senses - Any specific physical language that appeals to one or more of the senses - Sight, hearing, taste, smell or touch.

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Concrete Poem

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A poem shaped is the form of the object the poem describes/discusses.

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Consonance

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Repetition of consonants with different vowels - like Krispy Kream.

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Couplet

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Two consecutive lines with the same end-rhyme.

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Elements of Poetry

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Diction, syntax, etc. Everything that makes up a poem.

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End-Rhyme

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End of each line rhymes.

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Exact Rhyme

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All sounds following the vowel is the same: Spite and night, art and heart, etc.

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Figurative Language

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The use of metaphors or similes to achieve a special effect or meaning.

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Fixed Form

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Definite form and meter. Repeating patterns of line, rhyme scheme or stanza.

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Foot

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Unit of measurement. One stressed and one or more unstressed syllables.

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Free Verse

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No meter

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Hyperbole

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Overstatement

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Iamb

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A metrical foot of two syllables, an unaccented one followed by an accented one.

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Image

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Appeals to your senses

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Line

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A sequence of words printed as a seperate entity on a page. The basic structural unit in poetry (except in prose poetry).

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Meter

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A steady beat

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Onomatopoeia

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Words that sound like what they mean. I.E. Thump, growl, rattle, hiss…

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Personification

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Something treated like a human. “That table has nice legs.”

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Poem

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Almost indefinable

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Prose Poem

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Almost like an essay, fiction prose, etc.

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Rhyme Scheme

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End line rhyme patterns

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Scansion

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The division of metrical verse in feet. Process of determining meter in a poem.

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Simile

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Using “like” or “as” to make a comparison.

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Slant Rhyme

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Same consonant at end of line. I.E. Room and storm, firm and room, and be and fly in Emily Dickinson’s “I Heard A Fly buzz - when I died.”

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Stanza

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Break at the end of lines.

32
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Understatement

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Opposite of hyperbole. Like the suicide line in Frost’s poem.