Ap Lit.

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Three aspects of Poetry

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Tone, Theme,& Dramatic Situation

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Tone

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Form
Analyze
Rhyme
Connotation
Figurative Language

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Theme

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What is the purpose of the poem?
How is this achieved?
How is this linked to the elements?
The theme is always an abstract idea to which the poem relates.

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Theme is made concrete through

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Speaker
Events
Images

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Dramatic Situation

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Who is the speaker?
To whom is s/he speaking?
What are the circumstances?

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Alliteration

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is the repetition of initial consonant sounds in words such as "rough and ready"

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Apostrophe

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is the address to a person or personified object not present "Little Lamb, who made thee?"

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Assonance

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is the repetition of vowel sounds without the repetition of consonants "My words like silent rain drops fell..."

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Ballad

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a poem in verse form that tells a story to be sung or recited

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Blank Verse

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A poem written in unrhymed iambic pentameter.

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Cacophony

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Cacophony is an unpleasant combination of sounds.

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Caesura

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A pause or break within a line of poetry

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Canto

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A subdivision of an epic poem.

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Conceit

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An extended metaphor comparing two unlike objects

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Concrete Poem

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A poem that makes a picture or shape on the page because of the layout of the script

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Consonance

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The repetition of consonant sounds, although similar to alliteration consonances are not limited to the first letters of words

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Couplet

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A stanza of two lines equal in length, usually rhyming.

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Elegy

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A lyric poem lamenting death.

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End Rhyme

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the rhyming of words that appear at the ends of two or more lines of poetry

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Enjambment

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the running over of a sentence or thought from one line to another

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Imagery

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Is the use of words to represent things, actions, or ideas by sensory description

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Internal rhyme

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Occurs when the rhyming words appear in the same line of poetry: “You break my eyes with a look that buys sweet cake.”

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Light verse

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Is a general category of poetry written to entertain, such as lyric poetry, epigrams, and limericks. It can also have a serious die, as in parody or satire

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Limerick

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Is a humorous nonsense-verse in five anapestic lines rhyming aabba, a-lines being trimeter and b-lines dimeter.

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Lyric

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is a short verse that is intended to express the emotions of the author; quite often these lyrics are set to music.

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Meter

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is the patterned repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.

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Onomatopoeia

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is the use of word whose sound suggest its meaning, as in the clang, buzz, and twang

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Ode

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is an elaborate lyrics verse which deals seriously with a dignified theme.

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Oxymoron

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is contradictory terms brought together to express a paradox for strong effect.

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Persona Poem

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is a poem about the author using “I” throughout.

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Refrain

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is the repetition of a line or phrase of a poem at regular intervals, especially at the end of each stanza. A song’s refrain may be called the chorus.

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Repetition

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is the repeating of a word or phrase within a poem or prose piece to create a sense of rhythm: “His laugh his dare, his shrug / sag ghostlike…”

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Rhyme

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is the similarity or likeness of sound existing between two words. Sat and cat are perfect rhymes because the vowel and final consonant sounds are exactly the same.

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Masculine Rhyme

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is rhyme in which only the last, accented syllable of the rhyming words correspond exactly in sound; most common kind of end rhyme. "She walks in beauty like the night"

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Feminine Rhyme

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is rhyme in which two consecutive syllables of the rhyming words correspond, the first syllable carrying the accent; double rhyme.

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Rhyme Scheme

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is the pattern of rhymes with a unit of verse; in analysis, each end rhyme-sound is represented by a letter.

"Take, O take those lips away,--a

That so sweetly were forsworn; --b

And those eyes, the break of day, --a

Lights that do mislead the morn: --b

But my kisses bring again, bring again; --c

Seals of love, but sel’d in vain, seal’d in vain. --c

(William Shakespeare’s “Take, O Take Those Lips Away”)"