Poetry Test Vocab 12/15/09

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ballad

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a short, musical narrative poem. Popular ballads were passed on by work of mouth over generations before being written down

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dramatic poetry

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poetry in which one or more characters speak to other characters, to themselves, or to the reader

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Epic poetry

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A long narrative poem that traces the adventures of a hero

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lyric poetry

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poetry that expresses a speaker's personal thoughts and feelings
(usually short and musical)

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narrative poetry

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verse that tells a story

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Sonnets
1.) Shakespearean or English
2.) Petrarchan or Italian

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-a 14 line poem usually written in iambic pentameter
- consists of three quatrains (four-line stanzas) followed by a couplet (2 line stanza) at the end
- first stanza is eight lines, second is 6 lines. First stanza recalls a question, second answers it

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Alliteration
-assonance
-consonance

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repetition of sounds
-repetition of vowels (a,e,i,o,u)
-repetition of consonants

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Rhymes
- end rhyme
-slant rhyme
-internal rhyme

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words that sound alike
-when words sound alike at the end of a line of poetry
-occurs when words include sounds that are similar but not identical. Slant rhymes usually involve some variation of alliteration
-words within a line of poetry sound alike

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rhyme scheme

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the pattern of rhymes formed by the end rhyme in a poem (abba,cddc etc...)

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blank verse

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poetry that does not rhyme

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concrete poem

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a pome that stresses the visual appearance of the words and lines on the page

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couplet

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two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme

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foot

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the basic measurement of rhyme. Afoot contains grouping of stressed and unstressed syllables

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iambic pentameter

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a meter made up of five iambic (unstressed and stressed syllables) feet

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free verse

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poetry that has no fixed pattern or meter,rhyme,line length, or stanza arrangement

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meter

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a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that gives a line of poetry a predictable rhythm

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iamb (iambic)

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(unstressed+stressed)
has two syllables

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trochee (trochaic)

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(stressed+unstressed)
has two syllables

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spondee (spondaic)

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(stressed+stressed)
has two syllables

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anapest (anapestic)

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(unstressed+unstressed+stressed)
has three syllables

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dactyl (dactylic)

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(stressed+unstressed+unstressed)
has three syllables

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monometer

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on foot

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dimeter

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two feet

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trimeter

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three feet

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tetrameter

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four feet

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pentameter

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five feet

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hexameter

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six feet

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heptameter

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seven feet

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octameter

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eight feet

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mood

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the emotional quality or atmosphere of a poem

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rhythm

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the pattenr of beats created by the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables. Rhythm can be regular, with a predictable pattern, or irregular

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scansion

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the analysis of the rhythm of a line of verse. To scan a line of poetry means to note stressed and unstressed syllables and to divide the line into its feet, or rhythmical units

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speaker

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the voice of a poem, sometime that of a poet, sometimes that of a fictional person or even a thing.

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stanza

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a group of lines forming a unit of a poem

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tone

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the attitude taken by the author or speaker toward the subject in a poem; the tone conveys an emotion.

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metaphor

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the comparison of two unlike things

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simile

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the comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as"

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personification

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giving human characteristics to non-human things