Poetry 240 Vocab Quiz 2

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Anapest

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Two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable

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Alliteration

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The repetition of the same consonant sounds in a sequence of words, usually at the beginning of a word or stressed syllable.

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Assonance

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The repetition of internal vowel sounds in nearby words that do not end the same. "Asleep, tree"

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Allegory

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A narration ofr description usually restricted to a single meaning because its events, actions, characters, settings, and objects represent specific abstractions or ideas.

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Cacophony

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Language that is discordant and difficult to pronounce, such as this line "never my numb plunker fumbles."

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Caesura

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A pause w/in a line of poetry that contributes to the rhythm of the line. need not be punctuation.

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Cosmic Irony

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Occurs when a writer uses God, destiny, or fate to dash the hopes and expectations of a character or of humankind in general.

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Couplet

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two consecutive lines of poetry that usually rhyme and have the same meter.

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Dramatic Irony

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Creates a discrepancy btw. what a character believes or says and what the reader or audience member knows to be true.

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End-Stopped Line

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A poetic line that has a pause at the end. Usually reflect normal speech patterns and are often marked by punctuation.

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Enjambment

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In poetry, when one line ends without a pause and continues into the next line for its meaning.

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Euphony

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Refers to language that is smooth and musically pleasant to the ear.

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Feminine Line

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Consists of a rhymed stressed syllable followed by one or more identical unstressed syllables.Ex butter, clutter

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Free Verse

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Refers to Poems characterized by their nonconformity to established patterns of meter, rhyme, and stanza.

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Fixed Forms

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A poem that may be categorized by the pattern of its line, meter, rhythm, or stanzas.

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Foot

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The metrical unit by which a line of poetry is measured.

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Iamb

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consists of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable. Ex: away

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Iambic Pentameter

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A metrical pattern in poetry that consists of five Iambic feet per line.

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Irony

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A literary device that uses contradictory statements or situations to reveal a reality different from what appears to be true.

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Masculine Rhyme

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Describes the rhyming of single-syllable words, such as grade or shade. Also occurs when rhyming words are ofmore than one syllable and the same sound occurs in a final stressed syllable ex: defend, contend

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Meter

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When a rhythmic pattern of stresses recurs in a poem.

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Quatrain

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A four-line stanza.

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Rhyme

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The repetition of identical or similar concluding syllables in different words, most often at the ends of lines.

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Rhythm

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A term used to refer to the recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds in poetry.

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Scansion

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The process of measuring the stresses in a line of verse to determine the metrical pattern of the line.

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Sestina

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A type of fixed form poetry consisting of thirty-six lines of any length divided into six sestets and a three-line concluding stanza called an envoy.

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Situational Irony

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Exists when there is an incongruity btw. what is expected to happen and what actually happens owing to forces beyond human comprehension or control.

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Slant/Half rhyme

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The sounds are almost but not exactly alike.

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Sonnet

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A fixed form of lyric poetry that consists of fourteen lines, usually written in iambic pentameter.

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Stress

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The emphasis, or Accent, given a syllable in pronunciation.

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Tercet

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A three-line stanza

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Tetrameter

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four feet

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Trimeter

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Three feet

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Trochee

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Consists of one stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable (lovely).

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Verbal Irony

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A figure of speech that occurs when a person says one thing but means the opposite.

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Villanelle

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A type of fixed form poetry consisting of nineteen lines of any length divided into six stanzas: five tercets and a concluding quatrain. The first and thrid lines of the initial tercet rhyme; these rhymes are repeated in each susequent tercet (aba) and in the final two lines of the quatrain (abaa).