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70 Cards in this Set
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Form |
Shape and type of poem |
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Fixed form |
Set poetic form |
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Free verse or open form |
Poetry without a set Form |
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Stanza |
An arrangement of a certain number of lines usually four or more. That forms a division in a Poem |
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Rhyme scheme |
The pattern of rhymes used in a poem. Ababcdcd |
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Couplet |
A pair of successive lines of verse especially a pair that rhyme and are the same length. |
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Heroic couplet |
A stanza consisting of two rhyming lines in iambic pentameter. |
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Tercet |
A group of three lines rhyming together or connected by rhyme with the adjacent group or groups of three lines |
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Triplet |
Three successive verses or lines especially rhyming and of the same length. |
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Terza rima |
Italian form of iambic verse consisting of 11 syllable lines arranged in tercets |
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Quatrain |
A stanza or poem of four lines usually with alternate rhymes. |
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Ballad stanza |
A four line stanza consisting of unrhymed first and third lines in iambic tetrameter. Often used in ballads. |
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Sonnet |
A poem properly expressive of a single complete thought. Consisting of 14 lines in iambic pentameter. With rhymes according to the theme. |
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Italian sonnet |
octave Rhyme scheme abbaabba and sestet with cdcdcd |
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Octave |
Group of 8 |
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Sestet |
The last six lines of an Italian Sonnet |
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Shakspearan sonnet |
Abab cdcd efef gg |
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Villanelle |
A short poem of fixed form written in tercets usually 5 in number |
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Sestina |
A poem of six six line stanzas. Without rhyme. And three line envoy. Each Stanza repeats the end words of the lines of the first stanza but in a different order |
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Limerick |
A humorous verse of five lines in which the first second and fifth lines rhyme with each other |
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Haiku |
Three lines 5syllables 7syllables 5syllables |
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Elegy |
A mournful melancholy or plaintive prom. |
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Ode |
A lyric poem in expressive and enthusiastic emotion. |
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Parody |
A funny poem.or imitation. |
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Diction |
Word choices |
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Poetic diction |
Language used in a poem. |
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Dialect |
Linguistics |
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Jargon |
Slang |
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Denotation |
Direct meaning |
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Connotation |
Secondary meaning of a word. |
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Persona |
A personality |
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Ambiguity |
Indefinite, or unclear |
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Syntax |
The patterns of forming sentences and phrases from words. |
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Tone |
Mood |
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Dramatic monologue |
A poetic form in which a single character reveals him or herself and the situation that is dramatic |
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Carpe diem |
Seize the day |
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Allusion |
Hinting or referencing something. |
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Image |
Picture |
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Figure of speech |
Metaphor similie etc etc |
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Simile |
Two unlike things are compared using like or as. |
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Metaphor |
Suggesting resemblance not using like or as. |
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Implied metaphor |
Compares two unlike things without mentioning one. |
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Synecdoche |
Part implies the whole |
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Metonymy |
Using an object to compare something ex. The bottle for a strong drink. |
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Personification |
To give human characteristics to inanimate objects. |
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Hyperbole |
Obvious exaggeration |
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Paradox |
Contradictory but expresses possible truth. |
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My mistress eyes are nothing like the sun |
Shakespeare pg 743 |
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Not marble nor the gilded monuments |
Shakespeare 955 |
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Shall I compare thee to a summers day? |
Shakespeare 743 |
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That time of year thou mayst in me behold |
Shakespeare 1022 |
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When forty winters shall besiege thy brow |
Shakespeare 1021 |
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When in disgrace with fortune in men's eyes |
Shakespeare 1022 |
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Batter my heart |
Donne 1005 |
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Death be not proud |
550 |
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Unholy sonnet |
Jarman 45 |
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Letter of resignation |
Baer 746 |
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Do not go gentle into the good night |
Thomas 747 |
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Ode on a Grecian urn |
Keats 612 |
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On my first son |
Jonson. 754 |
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The road not taken |
Robert frost 840 |
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They flee from me that sometime did seek me |
Wyatt |
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Harlem |
Hughes 941 |
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The passionate Shepard to his love |
Marlowe 954 |
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The nymph's reply to the Shepard |
Raleigh handout |
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To my dear and loving husband |
Bradstreet 956 |
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I being born a woman and distressed |
Millay 959 |
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Wild nights wild nights ! |
Dickinson 809 |
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Do not go gentle into that goodnight |
Thomas 747 |
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Ulysses |
Tennyson 1024 |
