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50 Cards in this Set
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Define Metaphor
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Metaphor is a sustained comparison in which part or all of a poem consist of related metaphors.
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What is a Simile?
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Definition: Simile is when you compare two nouns (persons, places or things) that are unlike, with "like" or "as."
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What is Personification?
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Definition: when you make a thing, idea, or an animal do something only humans can do.
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What is Hyperbole?
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Definition: a boldly exaggerated statement that adds emphasis without intending to be literally true, as in the statement "He ate everything in the house".
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Define Irony
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Definition: A literary device that uses contradictory statement or situations to reveal a reality different from appears to be true.
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What is a Lyric Poem
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A type of brief poem that express the personal emotions and thoughts of a single speaker.
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What is a Epic Poem?
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A long narrative poem, told in a formal, elevated style that focuses on a serious subject and chronicles heroic deed and events important to a culture or nation.
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What is a Dramatic Monologue Poem?
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A type of lyric poem in which a character (the speaker) addresses a distinct but silent audience imagined to be present in the poem in such a way as to reveal a dramatic situation and often unintentionally, some aspect of his or her temperament or personality.
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What is a Ballad Poem?
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Traditionally a ballad is a song, transmitted orally from genateration to generation, that tells a story and that eventually is written down.
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Describe a English/Shakespearean Sonnet.
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A fixed form of lyric poetry that consists of fourteen lines, usually written in iambic pentameter.
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Describe a Italian/Petrarchan Sonnet.
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An Italian sonnet is divided into an octave, which typically rhymes abbaabba and sestet, which may have varying rhyme schemes.
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What is an Ode poem?
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A relatively lengthy lyric poem that often expresses lofty emotions in a dignified style. Odes are characterized by a serious topic, such as truth, art, freedom, justice, or the meaning of life.
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What is an Elegy poem?
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A mournful contemplative lyric poem written to commemorate someone who is dead, often ending in a consolation.
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What is a Villanelle poem?
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A type of fixed form poetry consisting of nineteen lines of any length divided into six stanzas: five tercets and a concluding quatrain. The first and third lines are aba and the final lines are abaa.
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What is a Haiku poem?
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A style of lyric poetry borrowed from the Japanese that typically presents an intense emotion of vivid image of nature, which, traditionally, is designed to lead to a spiritual insight. Haiku is a fixed poem consisting of 17 syllables organized into three unrhymed lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables.
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What is meter?
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When a rhythmic pattern of stresses recurs in a poem, it is called meter. Metrical patterns are determined by the type and the number of feet in a line of verse.
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What is iambic foot?
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An iambic foot consists of one unstressed and one stressed syllable. This is the most common metrical foot in English poetry
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A monometer equals?
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One foot
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A dimeter equals?
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Two feet
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A trimeter equals?
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Three feet
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A tetrameter equals?
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Four feet
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A pentameter equals?
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Five feet
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A hexameter equals?
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Six feet
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A heptameter equals
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Seven feet
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A octameter equals
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Eight feet
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By combining the line length with name of the ___, we can describe the metrical qualities of a line concisely.
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Foot
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Define exact rhyme.
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Exact rhymes share the same stressed vowel sounds as well as sharing sounds that follow the vowel.
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Define eye rhyme.
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Words that may look alike but not rhyme at all. Such as, bough cough, or brow blow.
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Define off rhyme.
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The sounds are almost alike but not exactly alike. Such as home, same or worth, breath.
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What is rhyme scheme?
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It describes the pattern of end rhymes.
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Define stanza
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Grouping of lines, set off by a space, that usally has a set patteren of meter and rhyme.
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Define the stanze form couplet.
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Two consecutive lines of poetry that usally rhyme and have the same meter.
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Define the stanze form quatrain
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A four line stanza. The most common in the english langauge.
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Define the stanze form sestet
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A stanza consisting of exactly six line.
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What is blank verse?
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Unrhymed iambic pentameter.
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What is free verse?
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Also called open form and refers to poems characterized by their nonconformity to established patterns of meter, rhyme, and stanza. They usually do not rhyme.
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What is enjambment?
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When one line ends without pause and continues into the next line for its meaning.
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What is refrain?
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A refrain is a repeated part of a poem, particularly when it comes either at the end of a stanza or between two stanzas.
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What is the genre of William Shakespeare, "Shall I compare thee to a summers day"?
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Lyric/Sonnett
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Identify the genre of “My Mistress’ Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun”.
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Lyric/Sonnet
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Identify the genre of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways”
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Sonnet – a fourteen-line rhymed lyric poem written in iambic pentameter.
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Identify the genre of John Updike, “Dog’s Death”
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Lyric poem written in free verse.
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Identify the genre of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Ulysses”
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Lyric poem/dramtic monologue written in blank verse.
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Identify the genre of John Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
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Lyric/ode
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List the 9 genres of poetry.
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lyric poem
epic poem dramatic monologue ballad sonnet (English/Shakespearean and Italian/Petrarchan forms) ode elegy villanelle haiku |
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Identify the Genre of Langston Hughes, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”
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Lyric poem written in free verse it lacks rhyme and meter.
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Identify the Genre of Dylan Thomas, “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night”
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Lyric poem/Villanelle
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Identify the Genre of Matsu Basho, “Under Cherry Trees”
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Lyric poem/Haiku
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Identify the Genre of William Ernest Henley, “Invictus”
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A short Victorian poem
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Linda Pastan, “Jump Cabling”
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Lyric written in free verse.
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