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15 Cards in this Set
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Ballad
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a kind of poem or song that tells a story
a narrative poem written in deliberate imitation of the form, language and spirit of the traditional ballad which is a song that tells a story |
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sonnet
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a poem made up of 14 lines that rhyme in a fixed pattern
A lyric poem consisting of a single stanza of 14 iambic pentameter lines linked by an intricate rhyme scheme. |
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onomatopoeia
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a word, which imitates the natural sounds of a thing
designates a word, or combination of words, whose sound seems to resemble closely the sound it denotes: “hiss,” “buzz,” “rattle,” “bang.” |
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stanza
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a group of lines in a poem
Italian for “stopping place,” is a grouping of the verse-lines in a poem, often set off by a space in the printed text. Usually the stanzas of a given poem are marked by a recurrent pattern of rhyme and are also uniform in the number and lengths of the component lines. |
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meter
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a rhythmical pattern
the recurrence, in regular units, of a prominent feature in the sequence of speech-sounds of a language. |
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couplet
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a pair of rhymed lines that are equal in length.
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Quatrain
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A four-line stanza.
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Iambic Pentameter
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five-stress iambic verse. Iambic refers to an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. Pentameter refers to five stresses per meter. In each line of iambic pentameter, there would be ten syllables total (five rhymed, five unrhymed).The rhythm in each line sounds like: da-DUM / da-DUM / da-DUM / da-DUM / da-DUMIf mu- / -sic be / the food / of love, / play on (Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night) |
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Blank Verse
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Consists of lines of iambic pentameter (five-stress iambic verse) which are unrhymed—hence the term “blank.”
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Elegy
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a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead. |
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Ode
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A long lyric poem that is serious in subject and treatment, elevated in style, and elaborate in its stanzaic structure.
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oxymoron
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a combination of words that have opposite or very different meanings
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Paradox
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a statement that seems to say two opposite things but that may be true
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Prose poems
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compact, rhythmic, and usually sonorous compositions which exploit the poetic resources of language for poetic ends, but are written as a continuous sequence of sentences without line breaks.
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Verse
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Composition written in meter.
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