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Of poetry that is a direct, often songlike expression. Also expresses feelings and emotions.
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lyric
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Words with two unstressed rhyming syllables.
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double feminine rhymes
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A five line stanza.
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cinquain
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A stanza consisting of four lines with the first and third lines unrhymed iambic tetrameters and the second and fourth lines rhymed imabic trimeters.
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ballad
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Consists of three quatrains and a climatic couplet with a new rhyme. Its typical rhyme scheme is a-b-a-b-c-d-d-c-e-f-e-f-g-g.
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Shakespearean sonnet or English sonnet
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A figure of speech in which an address is made to an absent or deceased person or a personified thing rhetorically.
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apostrophe
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The intentional use of a word or expression figuratively, i.e., used in a different sense from its original significance in order to give vividness or emphasis to an idea.
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trope
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A figure of speech in which a part of something stands for the whole or the whole for a part.
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synecdoche
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A figure of speech involving the substitution of one noun for another of which it is an attribute or which is closely associated with it. Is very similar to synecdoche.
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metonymy
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The repetition of similiar vowel sounds.
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assonance
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The unit of measurement in poetry
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foot
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To mark off lines of poetry into rhythmic units, or feet and to provide a visual representation of their metrical structure.
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scanning
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A two-syllable foot, the first syllable unstressed, the second stressed.
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iamb
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A two-syllable foot with the first syllable stressed, the second unstresed.
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trochee
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A three-syllable foot with two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable.
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anapest
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A three-syllable foot composed of a stressed syllable and two unstressed ones.
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dactyl
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A line of a single foot.
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monometer
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Two-foot lines
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dimeter
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Three-foot lines
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trimeter
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Four-foot lines
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tetrameter
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Five-foot lines
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pentameter
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Six-foot lines; also called alexadrines
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hexameter
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A two-syllable foot consisting of two equally stressed syllables.
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spondee
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A division of a poem consisting of a series of lines arranged together in a usually recurring pattern of meter and rhyme.
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stanza
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The most easily recognized characteristic of poetry.
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rhyme
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A poem that consists of four lines , or four lines of a poem that can be considered as a unit.
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quatrain
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A pause or break within a line of poetry.
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caesura
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Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme.
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free verse
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Six lines of poetry especially the last six lines of an italian sonnet.
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sestet
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An eight line poem of the first eight lines of an italian sonnet.
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octave
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Refers to rhyming words at the ends of line.
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end rhyme
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When an individual line of poetry contains two or more words that rhyme.
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internal rhyme
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Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter.
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blank verse
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A speaker or writer's choice of words.
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diction
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Rhymes that end with accented syllables.
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masculine rhyme
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Rhymes that end in unstressed syllables.
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feminine rhyme
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A group of three lines that often rhyme; also called terza rima
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tercet
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A group of five lines of verse.
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quintet
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Lines that come in pairs that often rhyme.
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couplet
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Sounds that are close but not exact duplicates of each other are called _________, ___________, and __________.
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slant, off, and near rhymes
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Intellectual/henpecked you all is an example of ___________ rhyme.
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triple
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Mephistopheles/with the most awful ease is an example of _____________ rhyme.
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quadruple
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The pattern of rhymimg words within a given stanza or poem.
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rhyme scheme
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Words that virtually replicate sounds that poets use to create vivid effects.
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onomatopoeia
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The repetition of initial sounds in words and syllables.
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alliteration
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The repetition of consonants appearing within a line or at the end of words. Sometimes goes by the name dissonance, half rhyme, and oblique rhyme.
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consonance
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May consist of two syllable or three syllables and have names based on the order in which they appear.
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feet
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Seven-foot lines
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heptameter
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Eight-foot lines
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octameter
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The most widely employed rhythmic pattern.
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iambic pentameter
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Unstressed syllables omitted for the sake of meter.
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elisions
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Indicated by an absence of punctuation and eliminates the need to pause. Also called run-on,
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enjambment
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A figurative language in which resemblances between disparate things are implied.
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metaphors
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A figurative languafe that uses like or as to make comparisons.
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simile
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A single metaphor developed at length.
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extended metaphor
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Usages that leap to two or more illogical, inconsistent, often grotesque resemblances.
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Mixed metaphors
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A figure of speech that communicates a second meaning along with its literal meaning.
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symbol
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Word and phrases that refer to something that can be seen, heard, tasted, smelled, or touched.
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image
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Occurs when the poet assigns human characteristic to a nonhuman object or to an abstraction such as love, death, envy, victory, and so on.
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personification
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A historical,literary, or cultural reference to a person, place, or event.
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allusion
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A story or vignette that, like a metaphor has both literal and figurative meaning.
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allegory
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A phrase that seems self-contradictory or incompatible with reality
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oxymoron
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An apparently self-contradictory statement that under scrutiny makes perfect sense.
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paradox
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Saying less than one means or using restraint in ironic contrast to what might be said.
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understatement
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A form of understatement in which a positive fact is stated by denying a negative one.
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litotes
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An exaggeration, a useful device for poets to intensify emotions, values, physical features, the weather, or virtually anything.
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hyberbole or overstatement
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A story that adheres to no prescribed form; its purpose is to tell a tale.
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narrative poem
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Poetry that describes the lyric poems of certain 17th-century men who were fond of writing highly intellectual and philosophical verses on the nature of thought and feeling.
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metaphysical poetry
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Love poems, verses that declare poets' feelings for their sweethearts.
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romantic poetry
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Used in epics or heroic poetry. Expressed a complete thpught, with the 2nd line reinforcing the 1st.
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heroic couplets
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The completeness of a heroic couplet is said to be _________________.
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closed or end-stopped
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A poem spoken by one person to a listener who may influence the speaker with a look or an action, but says nothing.
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dramatic monologue
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An poem of mouring and meditation, usually about the death of a person but occasionally about other losses. Sometimes called dirge.
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elegy
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Follows this pattern: strophe, antistrophe, and epode.
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Pindaric ode
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Odes that don't necessary folloe the order of the Pindaric odes.
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irregular odes
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Adheres to the rhyme scheme of the Italian sonnet but ignores the customary break between the octave and sestet.
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Miltonian sonnet
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A 19 line poem with five 3-line stanzas and a concluding quatrain.
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villanelle
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Patterns of rhythm in poetry are based on _________.
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meter
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The process of analyzing meter
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scansion
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An ancient form of poetic song; a celebratory poem.
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ode
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Fourteen line lyric poems expressing one main thought or sentiment in iambic pentameter.
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sonnet
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A sonnet divided into two discreten units: sestet and octave with the remaining lines commonly but not always rhymed c-d-c-d-c-d or c-d-e-c-d-e.
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Italian sonnet
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