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31 Cards in this Set
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Alliteration
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The repitition of 2 or more consonant sounds in successive words in a line of poetry.
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Anapest
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A type of metrical foot consisting of 2 unstressed syllables followed by a stressed.
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Assonance
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Repetition of vowel sounds in words close together.
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Blank Verse
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Unrhymed iambic pentameter.
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Couplet
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A group of 2 lines
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Dactyl
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A type of metrical foot consisting of 1 stressed syllable followed by 2 unstressed.
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Enjambment
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When a sentence continues beyond the end of a line or a stanza.
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End Rymes, Feminine and Masculine.
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Fem. - unstressed syllable at the end of a line.
Masc. - Stressed syllable at the end of a line. |
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Free Verse
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Poetry that lacks regular meter and rhyme scheme.
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Foot
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a combination of 2 or 3 stressed stressed and unstressed sylables.
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Iamb
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A type of metrical foot consisting of 1 stressed syllable followed by 1 unstressed syllable.
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Imagery
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A mental picture that involves the 5 senses and often uses figurative speach. Taste, Touch, Smell, Sight, Hearing.
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Internal Rhyme
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Rhyming words within a line of poetry.
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Metaphore
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Figurative Language that makes one thing like another, often using "is."
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Meter
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The recurrence of regular beats in a poetic line, found by determining the # and type of feet.
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Onomatopoeia
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When a word recreates the sound of what it describes.
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Octave
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8 lines
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Pentameter
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Meter that has 5 feet per line
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Pantoum
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A poem of quatrains (4 lines) with an abab rhyme pattern.
2 lines from each stanza get repeated in the next stanza. |
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Petrarchan Sonnett
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(Italian)
14 Lines 8 Lines (Octive) abab cdcd 6 lines (Sestet) cde cde |
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Quatrain
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A group of 4 lines of verse.
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Scansion
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The system of indicationg metrical patterns.
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Sestet
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A group of 6 lines.
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Sestina
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a poem with:
6 sestets that use the same end word at the end and begining of each stanza. |
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Simile
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"like or as"
Figurative language that compares 2 things using like or as. |
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Shakespearean Sonnett
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14 Lines
Rhyme: abab cdcd efef gg |
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Slant Rhyme
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Rhymes that are imperfect such as stuns/stones.
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Stanza
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A group of lines in a poem
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Trochee
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A type of metrical foot.
1 stressed syllable followed by 1 unstressed syllable. |
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Villanelle
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19 Line Poem
3 line stanza 2 lines repeat throughout the poem Creates a woven cyclical effect. |
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Volta
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The Turn in a sonnet which marks the transition.
Occurs between the Octave and Sestet in a Petrarchan sonnet. Before the Couplet in a Shakesperean Sonnett. |
