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29 Cards in this Set
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sonnet |
fixed verse form consisting of 14 lines that are typically 5 foot iambs |
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sestina |
a poem with six stanzas of six lines and a final triplet, all stanzas having the same six words at the line-ends in six different sequences that follow a fixed pattern, and with all six words appearing in the closing three-line envoi. |
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villanelle |
a nineteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout, consisting of five tercets and a quatrain, with the first and third lines of the opening tercet recurring alternately at the end of the other tercets and with both repeated at the close of the concluding quatrain. |
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ars poetica |
a critique of the art of literary and especially poetic composition |
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alliteration |
the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words |
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assonance |
the use of words that have the same or very similar vowel sound near one another |
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caesura |
a usually rhetorical break in the flow of sound in the middle of a line of verse |
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conceit |
In literature, a conceit is an extended metaphor with a complex logic that governs a poetic passage or entire poem. By juxtaposing, usurping and manipulating images and ideas in surprising ways, a conceit invites the reader into a more sophisticated understanding of an object of comparison. |
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consanance |
correspondence or recurrence of sounds especially in words; recurrence or repetition of consonants especially at the end of stressed syllables without the similar correspondence of vowels |
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end-stopped |
marked by a logical or rhetorical pause at the end |
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enjambment |
the running over of a sentence from one verse or couplet into another so that closely related words fall in different lines |
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falling meter |
poetic meters such as trochaic and dactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable |
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feminine rhyme |
rhyme on the first syllable, "flying" and "dying" |
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image |
a reproduction or imitation of the form of a person or thing |
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internal rhyme |
rhyme between a word within a line and another either at the end of the same line or within another line |
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masculine rhyme |
rhyme on the last syllable, "fly" and "die" |
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metaphor |
a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them vehicle: they said tenor: they meant ground: point of similarity |
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onomatopoeia |
the creation of words that imitate natural sounds "oink" |
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pyrric |
a metrical foot consisting of two short or unaccented syllables |
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rising meter |
anapestic and iambic meters are called rising meters because they move from an unstressed syllable to a stressed syllable |
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sight rhyme |
agreement in spelling, but not in sound, of the end of words or of lines of verse, as in "have" and "grave" |
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slant rhyme |
rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical "years" and "yours" |
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spondee |
a foot of two syllables, both of which are long in quantitative meter or stressed in accentual meter |
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stanza |
an arrangement of a certain number of lines, usually four or more, sometimes having a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme, forming a division of a poem |
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Syncope |
the contradiction of a word by omitting one or more sounds from the middle as in the reduction of never to ne'er |
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plato |
poetry is bad, emotional, not truth, the "honeyed muse" must defend yourself, logic and instruction is appropriate for men |
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shelley |
document of "best/happiest" moments, redefinition of this: important/emotional moments, job of poet not to teach right and wrong but truth, all "one" poetry--> linked, together, shifting definition, "love" going out of yourself for someone else |
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wordsworth |
catharsis, release of emotion critical of "poetic diction" purpose/goal: "spontaneous overflow"--> can't force "release" immediate inspiration "ordinary things" in usual interest ways not invention thinking and reflection "common" to everyone, common people "demotic" for the people, folk 2 different poetics, bad: professional, fancy language and ideas, want to sound poetic |
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mill |
poetry is not verse or rhyme, but should be felt and acted upon emotions, associative thinking connected by emotion, poets have the best understanding of their own feelings and the feelings of those around them, observations of themselves, solitude/inwardly focused, "soliloquy" relationship of poet to the audience: saying something meant for someone else is not poetry, eloquence is heard, poetry is overheard |
