Terms Flashcards
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Accent
Stressed syllable
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Alliteration
Repetition of Consonants
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Anaphora
Repetition of some words at the beginning of lines - like Whitman’s Song of Myself
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Assonance
Repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds. I.E. “Time held me green…”
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Blank Verse
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
Pause or break in a line of poetry
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Concrete Language
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
A poem shaped is the form of the object the poem describes/discusses.
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Consonance
Repetition of consonants with different vowels - like Krispy Kream.
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Couplet
Two consecutive lines with the same end-rhyme.
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Elements of Poetry
Diction, syntax, etc. Everything that makes up a poem.
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End-Rhyme
End of each line rhymes.
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Exact Rhyme
All sounds following the vowel is the same: Spite and night, art and heart, etc.
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Figurative Language
The use of metaphors or similes to achieve a special effect or meaning.
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Fixed Form
Definite form and meter. Repeating patterns of line, rhyme scheme or stanza.
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Foot
Unit of measurement. One stressed and one or more unstressed syllables.
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Free Verse
No meter
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Hyperbole
Overstatement
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Iamb
A metrical foot of two syllables, an unaccented one followed by an accented one.
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Image
Appeals to your senses
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Line
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
A steady beat
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Onomatopoeia
Words that sound like what they mean. I.E. Thump, growl, rattle, hiss…
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Personification
Something treated like a human. “That table has nice legs.”
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Poem
Almost indefinable
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Prose Poem
Almost like an essay, fiction prose, etc.
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Rhyme Scheme
End line rhyme patterns
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Scansion
The division of metrical verse in feet. Process of determining meter in a poem.
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Simile
Using “like” or “as” to make a comparison.
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Slant Rhyme
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
Break at the end of lines.
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Understatement
Opposite of hyperbole. Like the suicide line in Frost’s poem.
