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67 Cards in this Set
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Ars Poetica |
-Archibald MacLeish "A poem should not mean / But be" "globed fruit" |
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My Papa's Waltz |
Theodore Roethke "We romped until the pans..." Trigger words: "death, battered, beat" -Powerful ambiguity |
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Scansion |
- "Scanning" a poem means marking out its rhythm -Differentiating between stressed syllables and unstressed syllables -BEAT: stressed syllable -OFFBEAT: unstressed syllable |
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Feet |
Metrical units to divide the stressed and unstressed beats Examples: Iambs, trochees, anapest, dactyl |
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Iamb |
^ / pattern (invest , denounce, careen) |
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Trochee |
/ ^ pattern of beats Example: party, lizard, lady |
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Anapest |
^ ^ / pattern of beats Examples: contradict, understand, interrupt |
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Dactyl |
/ ^ ^ pattern of beats Examples: Oligarch, cannibal, tenderly |
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Dimeter |
Line with two feet |
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Trimeter |
Line with three feet |
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Tetrameter
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Line with four feet |
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Petameter |
Line with five feet |
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Hexameter |
Line with six feet |
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Ballad |
Often anonymous folk poems Frequently tell a story "Unquiet Grave" is an example Normal Ballad rhyme scheme is ABCB Example of 4x4 |
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4x4 |
Four lines of poetry with four beats per line |
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Virtual beat |
Instinctive pause at the end of a line where there should be a syllable but it is ommitted |
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The Tyger |
William Blake Trigger words: lamb, fearful symmetry |
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Apostrophe |
direct address to an entity that cannot respond i.e., when Blake talks to the "Tyger" but it will never talk back |
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591: "I heard a Fly buzz -- when I died -- " |
Emily Dickinson Triggers: look for dashes, death, flies, buzzing |
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Neutral Tones |
Thomas Hardy |
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The Bean Eaters |
Gwendolyn Brooks Triggers: Beans, Two, Mostly Good |
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Assonance |
vowel-sound repetition within words (lean, beans, beads, receipts..) |
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Sonnet |
14 line poem (usually) Iambic pentameter (usually) ITALIAN: also called Petrarchan. features an 8 line section (octave) and a 6 line section (sestet) ENGLISH: also called Shakespearean. Arranged as 3 quatrains and a couplet. |
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Volta |
represents the change of mood or initiates answer to a question or problem i.e., "however" "but" "nonetheless" "although" |
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Sonnet 18 |
Shakespeare "Shall I compare thee to a summers day?" |
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Metaphor |
comparison between two unlike things |
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Anaphora |
repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of adjacent clauses i.e., "Oh Lord help me for I am weak, Oh Lord help me for I have sinned, Oh Lord..." |
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Those Winter Sundays |
Robert Hayden "Sundays too my father got up early..." |
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Blazon |
List of body parts |
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Caesura |
Mid-line pause or break |
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Sonnet 77 |
Mary Wroth Love sonnet hybrid english - italian sonnet |
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I, Being Born a Woman and Distressed |
Edna St. Vincent Millay "To bear your body's weight upon my breast..." |
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Holy Sonnet 14 |
John Donne "Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me" |
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The Kraken |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson Triggers: below, deep, beneath |
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Enjambment |
When sentences or phrases do not come to a natural pause at the ends of lines |
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end-stopping |
When the end of a line does coincide with the end of a sentence or phrase |
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alexandrine |
12 beat line |
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Pied Beauty |
Gerard Manley Hopkins "Praise him" Triggers: God, nature |
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Consonance |
repetition of consonant sounds not at the beginnings of words |
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Design |
Robert Frost Triggers: white flower, white spider, white moth "Govern in a thing so small" |
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Portrait d'une Femme |
Ezra Pound "takes strange gain away" |
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Blank verse |
unrhymed iambic pentameter |
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Patterns |
Amy Lowell Triggers: sexuality, social norms |
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Free verse |
without regular rhyme or regular meter |
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Bard |
archaic term for poet |
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Kubla Khan |
S. T. Coleridge the poem about the crazy dream that the author had while he was on opium "revive within me / her symphony and song" "demon lover" "voices prophesying war" |
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The Raven |
Edgar Allen Poe "And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain / Thrilled me" |
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To A Skylark |
Percy Shelley Triggers: birds, nightingale "singest of summer in full-throated ease" |
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Song |
Christina Rossetti "I shall not hear the nightingale / Sing on" |
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The Darkling Thrush |
Thomas Hardy |
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Ode to a Nightingale |
Keats |
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Warming Her Pearls |
Carol Ann Duffy Triggers: mistress, jewelry, lesbian vibes |
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Porphyria's Lover |
Browning |
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The Voice |
Thomas Hardy "air blue gown" "woman much missed" "now you are not as you were / When you had changed from the one who was all to me" Repetition of "all to me" |
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Theme for English B |
Langston Hughes free verse "I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love" "I am the only colored student in my class" "That's American" *** |
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Talking in Bed |
Phillip Larken "not untrue and not unkind" |
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Tercet |
rhyming three line stanza |
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The Hollow Men |
T.S. Elliot "world will end not with a bang but with a whimper" "there are no i's here" |
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conceits
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strange or elaborate metaphors |
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refrain |
repeated line or set of lines |
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Mariana |
Alfred Tennyson Triggers: abandonment by lover, "unlifted latch", "clinking latch", "full of weeds, free of weeds" |
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Goblin Market |
Christina Rossetti triggers: any scary lesbian stuff between sisters |
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The Raven |
Edgar Allan Poe Triggers: repetition of the word "nevermore" , "Lenore" |
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Sestina |
Elizabeth Bishop Trigger: the word ALMANAC |
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Daddy |
Sylvia Plath |
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The rites for Cousin Vit |
Gwendolyn Brooks Triggers: coffins, death, "Vit" "oh oh. Too much. Too much." |
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