English Literary Terms 8Th Grade 2

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Dialect

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speech that reflects a certain area of the country or a certain person

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Types of Feet

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1. iambic- unstressed, stressed
2. Trochaic- stressed, unstressed
3. Anapestic- unstressed, unstressed, stessed
4. Dactylic- stressed, un, un

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Signes to Rep. Feet

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1. Stressed: an accent (/)
2. Unstressed: a 'u' above the letter(s)

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Types of Poetry

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1. Lyric- doesn't tell a story, expresses emotion or describes a scene
2. Narrarative- a poem that tells a story
3. Ballad- a type of narr. that usually has big love, adventure, or relationship

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Types of Rhyme

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1. exact, near, visual, end, internal
2. rhyme scheme-aabb,aba, ect.

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Free Verse Poetry

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no rules, usually conversational sounding & modern

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Blank Verse Poetry

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in iambic pentameter form but not rhyming

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Kinds of Metrical Lines

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1. Pentameter- 5 feet in a line (only iams) (will have 10 syll.)
2. There are others

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Refrain

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a sound, word, phrase, or line repeated in a poem
diff than anaphora b/c it has a pattern through th poem

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Stanza

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a group of lines arranged together

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Line

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a group of word 2gether on 1 line of a poem

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Form

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the appaerence of the words on a page

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Kinds of Stanzas

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1. Couplet- 2 lines
2. Triplet- 3 lines
3. Cuatrain- 4 lines

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Enjamed Line

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whan a line of poetry goes to the next line without punctuation