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63 Cards in this Set
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What is a Limerick?
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Light verse (a/a/b/b/a) (humerous)
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What is Narrative Poetry?
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Tells a story/ballad (sung)
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What is Extended Metaphor?
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Comparison extends throught the entire poem.
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What is an Epic Poem?
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Poem about the deeds of a hero.
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What is a Haiku?
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3 Lines of Japanese Poetry. (usually about nature.)
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What is a Lyric Poem?
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Poem that expresses an emotion.
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What is an Ode?
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Serious and thoughful/very precise rhyme scheme/praise/lyric (expresses emotion)
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Enjambment
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Reading of poem does not stop at end of line/ continues onto next line.
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Caesura
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Natural pauses within a poem (maybe indicated by punctuation)
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What is a Meter?
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Patter of stressed and unstressed syllables established in a line of poetry.
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What is a foot?
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A unit of meter- can have 2 or 3 syllables.
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What is an Iambic foot?
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u/ (unstressed/stressed)
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What is a Trochaic foot?
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/u (stressed/unstressed)
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What is an Anapestic foot?
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uu/ (unstressed/unstressed/stressed)
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What is a Dactylic foot?
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/uu (stressed/unstressed/unstressed)
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What is a Spondaic foot?
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// (stressed/stressed)
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What is a Pyrrhic foot?
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uu (unstressed/unstressed)
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What is a Monometer?
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One foot line.
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What is a Dimeter?
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Two foot line.
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What is a Trimeter?
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Three foot line.
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What is a Tetrameter?
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Four foot line.
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What is a Pentameter?
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Five foot line.
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What is a Hexameter?
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Six foot line.
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What is a Heptameter?
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Seven foot line.
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What is a Octometer?
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Eight foot line.
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What is Blank Verse?
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Lines of Iambic Pentameter that do not rhyme.
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What is a Free Verse?
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Lines that do not have a meter and do not rhyme.
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What is an End Rhyme?
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Rhyme occurs at the end of two or more lines of verse.
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What is Internal Rhyme?
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Rhyme occurs within the same line of verse.
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What is a Masculine Rhyme?
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One syllable of a word rhymes with another word.
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What is a Feminine Rhyme?
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Last two syllables of a line rhyme.
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What is a Rhyme Scheme?
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The pattern or sequence in which the rhyme occurs.
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What is Alliteration?
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Repetition of the initial letter in two or more words in a line.
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What is Onomatopoeia?
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Use of a word which imitates the natural sound. (buzz. zip. pow.) comic book style.
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What is Assonance?
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Repetition of a *vowel* sound in the middle of a word.
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What is Consonance?
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Repetition of *consonant* sounds in middle of a word.
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What is a Refrain?
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Repetition of a phrase or line at intervals in a poem.
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What is Figurative Language?
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Use of language that should not be taken literally.
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What is a Simile?
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Comparison using "like" or "as".
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What is a Metaphor?
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Comparison without the use of "like" or "as".
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What is Personification?
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Giving human qualities to non-human objects, ideas, or animals.
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What is a Hyperbole?
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Exaggeration for effect.
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What is an Apostrophe?
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Calling out to an abstraction as if present.
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What is a Symbol?
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A word or image that represents a larger idea.
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What is a Stanza?
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Divisions within a poem. (Usually indicated by spaces between the lines.)
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What is a Couplet?
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Two line stanza.
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What is a Triplet?
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Three line stanza.
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What is a Quatrain?
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Four line stanza.
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What is a Quintet?
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Five line stanza.
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What is a Sestet?
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Six line stanza.
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What is a Septet?
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Seven line stanza.
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What is an Octave?
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Eight line stanza.
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What is a Sonnet?
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14 Line poem writtin in Iambic Pentameter.
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What is a Petarchan Sonnet?
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Consists of an octave and sestet. (abbaabba cdecde/ or cdcdcd)
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What is a Shakespearean Sonnet?
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Consists of 3 quatrains and a couplet. (abab cdcd efef gg)
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What is Imagery?
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Words that appeal to our senses.
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What is Allusion?
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A reference to a person, event, idea, from literature, history, mythology, or the Bible.
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What is a Paradox?
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Seperated (not physically next to eachother) words or phrases that seem to contradict each other.
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What is Denotation?
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The dictionary definition of a word.
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What is Connotation?
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The emotional association of a word.
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What is Trite?
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Expressions that are overused/un-original.
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What is Scanning?
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Identifying the basic rhytm of a poem = meter and rhyme scheme.
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What is the Speaker?
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The "voice" of the poem. May not be the author.
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