Eng 195 Poetry References

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Poetry with lines arranged to resemble a familiar object,
such as a Christmas tree. Concrete poetry is also called
shaped verse.

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Concrete Poetry

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Two successive lines of poetry with end rhyme.

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Couplet

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Trivial or bad poetry.

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Doggerel

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Literary practices, rules, or devices that became
commonplace in epic poetry.

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Epic Conventions

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Poem or song honoring the bride and groom on the day of
their wedding.

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Epithalamion

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One of the hallmarks of the style of the Greek epic poet
Homer is the epithet, a combination of a descriptive phrase
and a noun. An epithet presents a miniature portrait that
identifies a person or thing by highlighting a prominent
characteristic of that person or thing.

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Epithet

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Form of poetry that ignores standard rules of meter in
favor of the rhythms of ordinary conversation.

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Free Verse

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Poem focusing on the simplicity and tranquillity of rural
life; prose work with a similar focus.

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Idyll

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(1) Poetry that presents the deep feelings and emotions of
the poet as opposed to poetry that tells a story or
presents a witty observation. Sonnets, odes, and elegies
are examples of -- poems.

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Lyric Poetry

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Highly intellectualized poetry written chiefly in 17thcentury
England. Less concerned with expressing feeling
than with analyzing it,

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Metaphysical Poetry

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In verse and poetry, ---is a recurring pattern of
stressed (accented, or long) and unstressed (unaccented, or
short) syllables in lines of a set length.

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Meter

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Important work by Aristotle written about 335 B.C. It
analyzes Greek theater and outlines its origin and
development.

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Poetics

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Language that expresses powerful emotions and ideas in a
stanza or stanzas that may use rhythm and rhyme, as well as
other rhetorical devices.

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Poetry

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Old English poet often attached to a monarch's court. A
--- composed and recited his own poetry.

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Scop

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Form of lyric poetry invented in Italy that has 14 lines
with a specific rhyme scheme. The Italian Petrarchan sonnet
consists of an eight-line stanza (octave) and a six-line
stanza (sestet). The first stanza presents a theme, and the
second stanza develops it. The rhyme scheme is as follows:
(1) first stanza (octave): ABBA, ABBA;

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Sonnet

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In poetry, a unit of three lines that usually contain end
rhyme.

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Tercet

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Ubi sunt is Latin for “where are.” The term is applied to
poetry that laments the passing of people, places, things,
or ideas by rhetorically asking where they are now in order
to call attention to the inexorable passage of time and the
inevitability of death, decay, and obsolescence.

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Ubi Sunt

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Collection of lines (as in a Shakespeare play) that follow
a regular, rhythmic pattern.

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Verse

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Form of poetry popularized mainly in France in the 16th
Century. It usually expressed pastoral, idyllic sentiments
in imitation of the Italian villanella, a type of song for
singers and dancers that centered on rural, peasant themes.

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Villanelle

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Repetition of vowel sounds preceded and followed by
different consonant sounds. Use of "bite" and "like" in a
line of poetry would constitute ----

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Assonance

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Originally, a Celtic poet who sang epic poems while playing
a harp.

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Bard