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21 Cards in this Set
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Baudelaire |
Oldest poet Uses prose Sticks with 12 syllables |
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Verlaine |
Classic French poet structure Weird life events Messes with line length |
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Apollinaire |
War poet Incredibly weird typography Calligramme |
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Alexandrin |
12 syllables Formal French verse line High register |
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Decasyllable |
10 syllables Used for lyric or epic poetry |
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Octosyllable |
8 syllables Used for songs/lighter forms of poetry |
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French poetry is... |
Metric more than rhythmic therefore easier to learn French is syllabic |
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In French poetry... |
No change of tone or intonation |
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Rich Rhyme |
Rhyme sound is sustained over more than 1 syllable |
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Weak rhyme |
Where the sound similarity isn't exact |
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Rime plates |
AABBCC... |
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Rimes craisées |
ABABAB... |
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Rimes embrassées |
ABBA... |
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Sonnet |
Long heritage 14 lines Divided into 2x4 and 2x3 Traditional rhyme scheme ABBA, ABBA,CCD, EDE Traditional line length (Alex) |
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Prose |
New form 19th cent Written in prose instead of verse Baudelaire's poems en prose No metre |
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Calligramme |
New 20th cent form New printing technologies --> poetic image (Apollinaire) |
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Rhyme |
Repetition of sounds rather than units of meaning |
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Assonance |
Repeated vowel sounds |
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Refrains |
Repetition of entire lines |
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Anaphora |
Repeated word(s) at start of consecutive lines/phrases |
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Alliteration |
Repeated consonants at the start of consecutive words |
