Week 2 Flashcards

1
Q

Alliteration

A

Repetition of the first sound

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2
Q

Opposition

A

A xxxxx xxxx xxxxx

xxxxxx xxxxx B

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3
Q

Oxymoron

A

xxxxxx A/B xxxx xxxx

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4
Q

Elegy

A
  • A song for a lost love

- Poems for lost

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5
Q

Ballad (time + origin)

A

14th Century —- Folk Music

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6
Q

Ballad

A

A narrative poem of popular origin

A narrative song with a recurrent refrain

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7
Q

Eye rhyme

A
  • To your eye they look like they rime

- (eg. most - lost)

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8
Q

Most - Lost (rhyme type)

A

Eye rhyme

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9
Q

Rhymes that look like but sound different

A

Eye rhyme

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10
Q

Anything before 19th century ___

A

Always rhyme

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11
Q

Epigram

A

A clever saying

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12
Q

A clever saying

A

Epigram

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13
Q

Apostrophe

A

Address to an absent or imaginary person

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14
Q

Address to an absent or imaginary person

A

Apostrophe

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15
Q

1250-1500 (language)

A

Middle English

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16
Q

Germanic verse is based on

A

short line length

17
Q

short line length are the basis of

A

Germanic verse

18
Q

variation

A

multiple names for the same thing

19
Q

multiple names for the same thing

A

variation

20
Q

formulas

A

repeated blocks of words

21
Q

repeated blocks of words

A

formulas

22
Q

compounding (e.g.)

A

(e.g. gleobeam, ‘glee-beam’ = harp)

23
Q

caesura

A

a midline pause

24
Q

a midline pause

A

ceasura

25
Q

mod

A

moody (mind, heart, care)

26
Q

mind, heart, care (middle English)

A

mod - moody

27
Q

Wyrd (ME - now + meaning)

A

Wierd, fate heart

28
Q

MAXIM

A

A short, pithy statement expressing a general truth or rule of conduct.

29
Q

A short, pithy statement expressing a general truth or rule of conduct.

A

MAXIM

30
Q

Fate often saves an undoomed man when his courage is good

it is a ______

A

Maxim