Poetry Final

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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

Ex: "descending dew drops"

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Assonance

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The repetition of internal vowel sounds in nearby words that do not end the same

Ex: "asleep under a tree"

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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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Feminine Rhyme

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a rhyme between stressed syllables followed by one or more unstressed syllables.

(e.g., stocking / shocking, glamorous / amorous

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Fixed form

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A poem that may be categorized by the pattern of it's lines, meter, rhythm, or stanzas.

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Iamb

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Consists of one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable

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Image

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A word, phrase or figure of speech that addresses the senses, suggesting mental pictures of sights, sounds, smells, tastes, feelings, or actions.

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lyric poem

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a type of brief poem that expresses the personal emotions and thoughts of a single speaker.

many types including: Dramatic monologue. elegy, haiku, ode, and sonnet

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masculine rhyme

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describes the rhyming of single syllable words

ex: grade , shade

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metaphor

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a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without using "like" or "as"

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Narrative Poem

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A poem that tells a story

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Onomatopoeia

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a term referring to the use of a word that resembles the sound it denotes

ex: buzz

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Open Form

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(free verse) Does nor conform to established patterns of meter and rhyme

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Personification

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When human characteristics are attributed to non-human things

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Petrarchan / Italian sonnet

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divided into an octave which typically has the rhyme scheme of ABBAABBA followed by a sestet, which may have varying rhyme schemes

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Shakespearean / English Sonnet

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three quatrains and a couplet, with a typical rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg

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Sonnet

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A fixed form of lyric poetry that consists of 14 lines usually in iambic pentameter

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Sestet

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A stanza consisting of six lines

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sestina

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A type of fixed form poetry consisting of 36 lines of any length divided into 6 sestets and a three line concluding stanza called an envoy

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 envoy.

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Simile

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Makes a comparison using "like" or "as"

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Symbol

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A person, object, image, word, or event that evokes a range of additional meaning

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Rhyme

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

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Theme

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Central meaning of a literary work.

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Trochee

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Consists of one stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable

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Quatrain

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a four line stanza

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villanelle

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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.