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49 Cards in this Set
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Narrator
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the person telling the story
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Genres
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separate categories delineated by distinct style, form, and content
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Internal Rhyme
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Rhymes may also occasionally be found in the interior of
lines |
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Italian Sonnet/Petrarchan Sonnet
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the original form of the sonnet is called
this |
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Limerick
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Two five-line fixed forms
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Fixed forms
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are patterns that encompass a complete poem
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Blank Verse
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consists of individual lines of iambic pentameter that do not
rhyme |
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Tanka
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which adds two additional seven-syllable lines to a haiku
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Couplets
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Paired rhyming lines (aabbcc)
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Haiku
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a Japanese import consisting of lines of five, seven, and five
syllables |
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Terza Rima
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Iambic Pentameter tercets rhyming aba bcb cdc, a pattern invented
by Dante for The Divine Comedy |
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Persona
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the way that the speaker speaks, how he acts
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English Sonnet/ Shakespearean Sonnet
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was developed in the sixteenth century
after the sonnet was imported to England and employs a different rhyme scheme that takes into consideration the relative scarcity of rhymes in English |
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Nonce Sonnets
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other names of sonnets over the years with other rhyme
schemes. |
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Spenserian Sonnet
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named after Edmund Spenser, rhymes ababbcbccdcdee
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Auditor
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the person or persons being spoken to in a poem
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Epigraph
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a brief explanatory statement or quotation
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Feminine Rhyme/Double Rhyme
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matches two syllables, one stressed and one
usually unstressed eg. Stinging, upbringing, flinging |
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Neologism
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a word made up by the poet
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Ballads
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shorter narratives with song-like qualities that often include rhyme
and repeated refrains |
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Nance
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the repetition of similar vowel sounds
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Syncope
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is done for the sake of maintaining the poem's meter
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Consonance
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the repetition of similar consonant sounds
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Apostrophe
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is used when a nonhuman, inanimate, or abstract thing is directly
addressed |
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Masculine Rhyme
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occurs between single stressed syllables eg. Fleece,
release, surcease |
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Ballads
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shorter narratives with song-like qualities that often include rhyme
and repeated refrains |
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Rhyme Scheme
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a stanza of four lines ending with heaven, hell, bell, eleven
is a rhyme scheme of abba |
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Lyric Poetry
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originally comprised brief poems that were meant to be sung or
chanted to the accompaniment of a lyre |
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Narrative Poetry
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poetry whose main function is to tell a story
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Elegy
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a lyric on the occasion of a death
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Epic
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second genre of Aristotle that has been expanded to include all types
of narrative poetry |
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Epigram
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a short, satirical lyric usually aimed at a specific person
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Dithyrambic Poetry
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Aristotle's third category was a type of poem that was
composed to be chanted as a religious ritual by a chorus |
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Refrain
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repeated line of groups of lines
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Connotation
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the implied meaning or feel that some words have acquired
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Ballads
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shorter narratives with song-like qualities that often include rhyme
and repeated refrains |
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Oral tradition
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stories and poems that were passed down from generation to
generation in ancient societies by mouth |
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Dramatic Poetry
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today the third category is called this, and is a speech by
a single character, usually delivered to a silent auditor |
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Mock-Heroic Narratives
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narratives of heroes
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Denotation
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literal meaning
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Parallel Structure
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simply the repetition of grammatically similar phrases or
clauses |
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Stanzas
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verses, whatever, you know it and that is fer sho, a block
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Archaisms
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words that are no longer in use, and that the reader does not
understand |
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Dramatic situation
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a situation that provokes emotion in the auditor
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Occasional verse
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a poem that is written about or for an important event
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Antithesis
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is the matching of parallel units which contain contrasting
meanings |
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Anaphora and Epistrophe
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repeated words or phrases at the beginning or ends
of lines |
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Diction
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refers to the individual words in a poem and may be classified in
several ways |
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Idiom
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the personal use of words that marks his poetry
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