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18 Cards in this Set
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Open Form; Free Verse
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A verse that has no set formal scheme-no meter, rhyme, or even set stanzaic pattern. Open form is always in free verse.
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Free Verse
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From the French Vers Libre. Free verse describes poetry that organizes it's lines without meter. It may be rhymed but it is usually not. There is no one means of organizing free verse, and different authors have used irreconcilable systems.
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Closed Form
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A generic term that describes poetry written in some preexisting pattern of meter, rhyme, line, or stanza. A closed form produces a prescribed structure as in the triolet, with a set rhyme scheme and line in length. Closed forms include the summit, sestina, villanelly, valid, and rondeau.
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Rime
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Two or more words that contain an identical or similar vowel sound, usually accented, with following consonant sounds (if any) identical as well.
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Stanza
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From the italian, meaning "stopping place" or "room". A reoccurring pattern of two or more lines of verse, poetries equivalent to the paragraph in prose. The stanza is the basic organizational principle of most formal poetry.
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Denotation
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The literal, dictionary meaning of a word.
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Connotation
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An association or additional meaning that a word, image, or phrase may carry, apart from it's literal denotation or dictionary definition. A word picks up connotation from all the uses to which it has been put in the past.
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Conventional Symbol
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Literary Symbols that have a conventional or customary effect on most readers. We would respond similarly to a black cat crossing our path or a young bride in a white dress. These are conventional symbols because they carry recognizable connotations and suggestions.
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meter
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the regular repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables found in some poetry
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Stanza
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group of consective lines in a poem that form a single unit
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Couplet
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two consective lines of poetry that rhyme
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Poetry
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Imaginative writing in which language, images, sound, and rhythm comine to create a special emotional effect. Usually in arranged line and some have rhythm.
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Three types of poetry:
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Narrative, dramatic, and lyric
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Epic
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Long, narritive. Events centerd around a national hero.
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Ballad
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Simple narritive. Sung under standable language for comman man.
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Dramatic
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Drama in verse form, speakers dialouge in rhythm or metre as the plot unfolds.
Example: Shakespeare, iambic pentameter |
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Sonnet
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Lyric poem with a single thought or emotion expressed-fixed 14 line. Italian or English
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Free verse
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Poetry that has irregular rhythm and line lengths. Usually does not have ryhme and reflects rhythm of everyday speech. Complete freedom
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