the Epic And Poetry Flashcards

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Poetry

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• A major genre of literature characterized by imaginative language

• using meter, rhyme, and imagery, arranged in lines and stanzas
• can be more free in structure than prose.

created a vivid picture in the reader’s mind.

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Narrative Poem

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A type of poem that tells a story, often with a plot and characters.

—— epic and ballads

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Lyric Poem

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• A highly musical type of poetry
• expresses the emotions of the speaker
• often using a regular metrical pattern.
• Contrasted w narrative
-sonnets, odes, haiku

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Dramatic Poem

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• uses elements of drama, such as monologue or dialogue
• told from the perspective of a speaker who is NOT the poet.

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Concrete Poem

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A poem whose words are arranged on the page to form a shape related to its content.

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Stanza

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A group of lines in a poem.

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Rhyme Scheme

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The pattern of end rhymes in a poem, often designated by letters

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Meter

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The regular rhythmic pattern in a poem
- created by stressed and unstressed syllables.

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Figurative Language

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Writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally, using devices like simile, metaphor, hyperbole, and personification.

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Alliteration

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The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a line of poetry.

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Assonance

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The repetition of vowel sounds in stressed syllables with different ending consonants.

Ex: “The cat sat on the mat”

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Epic

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A long narrative poem that portrays the heroic acts of legendary figures and mythical gods, often reflecting the values and culture of a people.

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Kenning

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A figurative expression where a descriptive phrase replaces a noun

“battle-sweat” for “blood.”

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imagery

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descriptive words that recreate sensory experiences
5 senses

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Speaker

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Character who speaks or narrates a poem.Voice assumed by the writer

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Metaphor

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One thing is written as it where another

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Simile

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Comparison a two seemingly unlike things

As, like

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Hyperbole

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Deliberate exaggeration made for effect

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Personification

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Human qualities to objects or animals

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Personification

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Human qualities to objects or animals

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Understatement

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Expression said like it’s not important

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Sound devices

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Uses of words for auditory effects, can convey meaning and mood or can unify the text

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Repetition

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A writers intentionally reuse of a sound, word, phrase, or sentence,

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Refrain

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Line or group of lines repeated in a poem or song

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Assonance
Repetition of vowel sounds in stressed syllables that end up with different consonant sounds
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Consonance
Repetition of consonant sounds at the end of words or an accent it syllables as wind and sound
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Onomatopoeia
Use of words who echo their meanings Zzzzz Bow!
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Slant rhyme
Rhyming sounds similar, but not identical. Rave and rove
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dramatic poem:
• relies on dramatic elements such as monologue and dialogue. • they often tell stories.
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Ballads:
• type of narrative poem that tells a story and was originally meant to be sung or recited.
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form:
form: **organization** or arrangement of the parts of the poem
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structure:
**the way in which lines are organized** ——- ———-
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form:
organization or arrangement of the parts of the poem