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48 Cards in this Set
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eckphrasis
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description of an art in poetry Ex. Eavan Boland's "The Photograph on My Father's Desk
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Acrostic Poem
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Poem, usually with no rhyme or meter that uses the first letter of every line to spell out something. Ex. Nancy Weaver
Boys! Are better busied Slinging bats and stealing bases; Even measuring odds, Batting averages Angles and trajectory and ... Losers, unknown to composers of Lovely concertos. |
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scansion
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shows the counting that remains constant in a line of feet
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Trochee
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foot that is a louder syllable followed by a softer Ex. HAPPy
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Iamb
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foot that is a softer syllable followed by a louder one. Ex. desPAIR
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Anapest
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type of foot that has two softer syllables followed by a ouder one: in the HOUSE
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epigram
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short, pithy, witty and conclusive poem
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Allusion
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Reference to history, a literary work, ideas, or myth. Ex. William Blake's "A Sick Rose" alludes to Shakespeare's line "Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds"
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epic
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Long narrative poem, often in blank verse, and used to be historical records
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Alliteration
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Repeating beginning consonant sounds of words. Ex. Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
"He gives His Harness bells a shake" |
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English/Shakespearean/Elizabethan Sonnet
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14 lines of iambic pentameter
abab cdcd egeg gg |
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Terza rima
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repeating 3 line stanza in a "weaving" pattern
aba bcb cdc |
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Foot
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the repeated pattern of stressed/unstressed syllables in a poem and / or line.
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Villanelle
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lines that repeat in tercet rhyme. last line is quatrain
abc Ex. Do not Go Gentle into cde that Good Night afg Edward Thomas chi akl |
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End-stopped line
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When the sense pauses or stops at the end of the line. Ex. Milton-"Brought death into the world, and all our woe..."
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Assonance
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Repetition of Vowel sounds
Ex.Keats "Ode to a Nightengale": But, in embalmed darkness, guess EACH SWEET" |
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reversed foot
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a foot in a line that is backwards than the other feet in the line/poem.
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Caesura
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A pause within a line
Ex. Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit. Milton, paradise lost |
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onomatopoeia
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a descriptive word that sounds like the think it describes Ex. boom, swish
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Consonance
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same consonance sounds found anywhere in the word.
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Italian/Petrarchian Sonnet
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14 lines iambic pentameter
abbaabba cdecde (or so) |
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Concrete Poetry
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A poem that is visually pleasureable as well as auditorily pleasurable. What the poem looks like is connected to the meaning of the poem.
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epic
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Long narrative poem, often in blank verse, and used to be historical records Ex. Homer's "Iliad"
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Conceit
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complex, unlikely metaphor that still makes sense.
Ex. Donne's The Flea |
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enjambment
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when the sense runs over the end of a line. Ex. Milton "With loss of Eden, till one greater Man/Restore us
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couplet
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two lines that rhyme or 2 line stanzas
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Prose Poem
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poems written in paragraphs. Shares most of the qualities of poetry (images, metaphores), with no real action or plot
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Blank Verse
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iambic pentameter without rhyme
Ex. Spencer's The Faery Queen |
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simile
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comparison using like or as
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Ballad
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Narrative poem in quatrains, usually rhymes:
tetrimeter,trimeter, tetrimeter,trimeter Ex. Sir Patrick Spens The king has written a braid letter, And signd it wi his hand, 10 And sent it to Sir Patrick Spence Was walking on the sand. |
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Spenserian Sonnet
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14 lines iambic pentameter
abab bcbc cdcd ee |
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dactyl
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a foot that has a louder syllable followed by two softer ones Ex. CHANGEable
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Syllabic verse
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poem whose lines are based on different syllable length (ex. haiku) Ex. Marian Moore's "The Monkeys"
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Dramatic Monologue
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long poem usually in blank verse and is from the perspective of one particular character Ex. Robert Browning "My Last Dutchess"
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Spondee
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a foot of two equally heavy accents
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Diction
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choice and use of words in speech or writing
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meter
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count of syllables that usually com e in pairs, and one is louder than the other
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English/Shakespearean/Elizabethan Sonnet
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14 lines of iambic pentameter
abab cdcd efef gg |
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Lyric
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short, imagistic poem
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rhythm
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an approximate recurrence or repetition in the pacing of sound
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Haiku
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Japanese created syllabic poem that goes in syllable lines of 5/7/5
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sestina
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end words repeat in a different order for every stanza. 6 line stanzas/ change order 6 X
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metaphor
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comparison without using like or as
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rhyme scheme
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the repeated order of rhyming words
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Narrative poem
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poem, usually long, that tells a story.
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Quatrain
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Stanza of four lines
aaaa, abab, abca, aabb, abba, and so on |
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symbol
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person, place, object, or event that comes to standfor something other than what it is, usually something more than it is, and for a class of events or relationships.
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tercet
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3 line stanza
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