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53 Cards in this Set
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Poetry
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is the most misunderstood form of writing. It is also arguably the purest form of writing. Poetry is a sense of the beautiful; characterized by a love of beauty and expressing this through words.
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Line
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It serves the same function as the sentence in prose.
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Stanza
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In poetry is equivalent or equal to the paragraph in prose.
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Couplet
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A two line stanza
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Triplet
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A three line stanza
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Quatrain
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A four line stanza
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Cinquain
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A five line stanza
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Measured
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Arrangement of words in poetry, the rhythmic pattern of a stanza
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Pattern of a Stanza
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Determined by the kind and number of lines.
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Syllables
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And unstressed/unaccented syllables.
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Rhyming
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Rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhyming words at the end of each line.
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Repeating
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Is the repetition of sounds for emphasis.
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Figurative Language
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Figurative language is any language that goes beyond the literal meaning of words in order to furnish new effects or fresh insights into an idea or a subject.
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Simile
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Is a figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared, often in a phrase introduced by like or as.
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Metaphor
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Is a figure of speech in which an implied comparison is made between two unlike things that actually have something important in common.
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Alliteration
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Is the repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words
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Imagery
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Is an appeal to the senses
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Hyperbole
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An exaggerated statement used to heighten effect
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Idiom
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Is a phrase where the words together have a meaning that is different from the dictionary definitions of the individual words. This can make idioms hard for students to understand.
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Personification
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Give a animal a humam traits.
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Free verse
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Is just what it says it is - poetry that is written without proper rules about form, rhyme, rhythm, and meter.
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Haiku
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is one of the most important forms of traditional Japanese poetry. Haiku is, today, a 17-syllable verse form consisting of three metered lines of 5, 7, and 5
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limerick
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Quite possibly accounts for its extreme longevity.
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Narrative Poem
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Often of folk origin and intended to be sung, consisting of simple stanzas and usually having a refrain.
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Poet
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The poet is the author of the poem
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Speaker
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The person who tells the poem
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Form
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The apperance of the words together on one line of the poem
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Line
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A group of words together in one line of the poem
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Stanza
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A group of lines arranged together
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Couplet
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A two line stanza
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Triplet
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A three line stanza
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Quatrain
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A four line stanza
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Quintet
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A five line stanza
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Septet
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A seven line stanza
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Octave
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A eight line stanza
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Meter
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A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllabes.
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Foot
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Can have two or three syllabes
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Lamic
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unstressed, stressed
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Trochaic
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stressed, unstressed
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Anapestic
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unstressed, unstressed, stressed
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Dactylic
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stressed, unstressed, unstressed
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Monometer
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one feet on a line
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dimeter
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two feet on a line
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trimeter
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three feet on a line
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tetrameter
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four feet on a line
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pentameter
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five feet on a line
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hexameter
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six feet on a line
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heptameter
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seven feet on a line
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octometer
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eight feet on a line
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Free verse
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does not have rhyme
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Blank verse
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the end word does not rhyme
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Limerick
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is a 5 lined poem with 1 couplet, and 1 triplet
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Acrostic
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is a poem where the 1st letter of each line form a word when you read them looking down.
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