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30 Cards in this Set
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Villanelle
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19 lines divided into 6 stanzas: 5 3-line stanzas & 1 4-line stanza (1st and 3rd lines of each tercet rhyme & last 2 lines of quatrain)
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Meditation
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a thoughtful or contemplative work often about philosophical or theological topic (extended and introspective)
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Imagism
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movement that focused on common, everyday vocabulary, new rhythm, & clear precise concentrated imagery (ex. Ezra Pound)
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Epic
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a long narrative usually written in elevated language
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Lyric
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a melodic poem that expresses the observations & feelings of a single speaker
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Epigram
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a short poem with a witty or satirical point
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Blank verse
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unrhymed iambic pentameter
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Pastoral
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composition dealing with simple, rural existence, & country life
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Heroic Couplet
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two successive lines of rhyming iambic pentameter (second line is usually endstopped)
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Scansion
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System of describing common poetic rhythms by dividing lines into feet
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Ballad/Ballad Stanza
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A form of verse to be sung or recited (tells a story similar to a fold tale and usually has a repeated refrain)
Stanza: 4 lines: 4 stress, 3 stress, 4 stress, 3 stress (abab or abcb rhyme) |
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Masculine Rhyme
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line ends in a stressed syllable
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Dactyl
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measurement of meter: stressed unstressed unstressed
example: hope less ly |
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Elegy
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a poem or song of lament and praise for the dead
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Formalism
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excessive adherence to prescribed forms
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Prose Poem
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piece of prose writing with obvious poetic qualities: intensity, compactness, prominent rhythms, & imagery
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Trochee
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measure of meter: stressed unstressed
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Terza Rima
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"third rhyme"
an arrangement of triplets that rhyme aba, bcb, cdc... etc. |
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Petrarchan Sonnet
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14 lines of iambic pentameter:
abbaabba --> cdecde, or cdcdcd, or cdedce |
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Aubade
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short poem about the dawn or the coming of the dawn
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Pyrric
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measure of meter: unstressed unstressed
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Spondee
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measure of meter: stressed stressed
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Shakespearean Sonnet
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14 lines of iambic pentameter:
ababcdcdefefgg (last 2 indented) |
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Synethesia
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poetic description of a sense impression in terms of another sense
example: an icy voice |
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Approximate Rhyme/Slant Rhyme/Imperfect Rhyme/Near Rhyme
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rhymes created out of words with similar but not identical sounds
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Feminine Rhyme
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line ends in an unstressed syllable
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Occasional Poem
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a poem written for a specific event
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Sestina
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six stanzas of six lines & a final triplet
all stanzas have the same 6 words at the end arranged in 6 different orders (all 6 words appear in closing triplet) |
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Ode
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a long formal lyrical poem with a serious theme
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Ottava Rima
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eight lines of 10 or 11 syllables rhyming:
abababcc |
