Ap Lit Poetry

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assonance

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repetition of internal vowel sounds that do not end the same (asleep & tree)

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caesura

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pause within a line of poetry

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consonance

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near rhyme that consists of identical consonant sounds preceded by diff vowel sounds

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euphony

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(good sound) language is smooth & pleasing to the ear

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falling meters

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metrical feet which move form stressed to unstressed sounds (trochaic & dactylic)

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feminine endings

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ends with one extra unstressed syllable

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feminine rhyme

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rhymed stressed syllable followed by one or more identical unstressed syllables

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spondaic foot

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two stressed syllables

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trochaic foot

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one stressed followed by one unstressed syllable

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anapestic foot

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two unstresssed syllables followed by one stresssed

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dactylic foot

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one stresssed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables

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tetrameter

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four feet

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hexameter

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six feet

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heptameter

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seven feet

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pentameter

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five feet

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literary ballad

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narrative poem written in imitation of language, form & spirit of traditional ballad

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masculine ending

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line that ends with a stressed syllable

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masculine rhyme

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rhyming of single syllable words (grade/shade) & rhyming words of more than one syllable when the same sound occurs in final stressed syllable (defend/contend)

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prosody

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overall metrical structure of a poem

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rising meter

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contains metrical feet that move from unstressed to stressed sounds (imabic & anapestic)

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scansion

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measuring stresses in a line to determine metrical pattern

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spondee

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foot with two stressed syllables, but is not sustained metrical foot & used mainly for emphasis

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synecdoche

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part of something used to symbolize a whole (all hands on deck)

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metonymy

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something closely related to a subject that is substitued for it (white house = government)

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didactic poetry

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designed to teach an ethical, moral, or religious lesson

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closed form

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poems that can be categorized by the patterns of their lines, meter, rhymes & stanzas in prescribed model

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ode

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serious topic & formal tone, lengthy, loft emotions, speakers use apostrophe

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villanelle

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fixed form of 19 lines, six stanzas, five tercets & quatrain

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sonnet

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fourteen lines, 3 quatrains, couplet, iambix pentameter (Italin/Petrachan, English/Shakespearean)

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elegy

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written to commemorate someone who died, melancholy & meditative

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high modernism

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lines of unequal length organized by images & themes

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imagism

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cadenced rythmic verse & free-floating images

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projective verse

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organized by physiology of speech, words are important things within themselves, not just references

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surrealism

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expresses workings of unconscious by fantastic imagery & incongruous content

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beat poetry

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"howl of protest" to conformity; 1950's

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postmodernism

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groundless, formless, focus on popular media images & is playful

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terza rima

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interlocking three-line rhyme scheme

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specific images

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simplification of broad images, ex: instead of tree, oak, maple, or pine

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concrete images

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conjure physical sensations (bread, surf sunlight)

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abstract images

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no physical detail (nutrition, meteorology, coloration)

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allusion

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reference to something else in history or literature