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80 Cards in this Set
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Prosody
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Study of poetic form
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Tropes
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turn or twist an image
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Two types of imagery
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Concrete and Abstract
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Concrete imagery
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appeals to the senses
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Abstract imagery
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images of thought
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Anaphora
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Related phrase at beginning of sentences
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Metaphor
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transfers qualities of one thing onto another
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Simile
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Metaphor to a lesser degree
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Conceit
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Elaborate metaphor
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Allusion
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Reference to another idea
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Allegory
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Story which characters stand in for longer ideals
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Metonym
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Change in the name of a thing: associated
water=Nile |
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Synecdoche
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referring to something as one of its parts
ex: I want to be the scuttering legs on the ocean floor |
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Oxymoron
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Two opposite images put together
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Irony
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gap between what is said and what is meant
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Hyperbole
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exaggeration
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Understatement
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Opposite of hyperbole
Mackenzie is OK |
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Litotes
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Double negative
No small... No ignoble... |
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Paradox
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Convert nonsensical image into something meaningful (like metaphor)
sign =/= signifier |
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Synesthesia
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Mixing or confusion of senses
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Assonance
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Similar vowel sounds
long poem |
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Consonance
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Similar consonant sounds
simple liturgy |
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Alliteration
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Words starting with same letter
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Onomatopoeia
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Words that sound like what they mean, BANG
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end/terminal rhyme
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rhyme at the end of a line
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true/perfect rhyme
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rhymes completely, True and Blue
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Slant/off rhyme
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almost rhymes
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Masculine rhyme
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One syllable. ...cold/..old
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Feminine Rhyme
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two or more syllables
...Gladly ...Badly |
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Juxtaposition
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Joining together of images
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Meter
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Pattern of accented and unaccented syllables
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Foot
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Metrical division of a line
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Scansion
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Analysis of meter using syllables
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Caesura
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Major pause in line of verse
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Enjambment
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When a sentence carries over from line to line
He who carries the torch must light the flame |
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End stopped line
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When a line ends with a pause in the sentence
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Meter types
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Quantitative
Accentual Syllabic Accentual Syllabic |
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Elision
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Removal of a syllable in poetry
Heav'n |
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# of feet per line
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Monometer
di tri tetra penta hexa hepta |
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Iamb
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x /
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Trochee
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/ x
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Anapest
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x x /
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Dactyl
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/ x x
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Spondee
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/ /
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Pyhrric
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x x
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Masculine line
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line ends on stressed syllable
Tyger Tyger burning bright |
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Feminine line
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Line ends on unstressed syllable
Tyger Tyger burning brightly |
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Expressive Variation
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Variation in meter that changes meaning
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apostrophe
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addressing an inhuman object
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Catalexis
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Dropping final unstressed syllable in a foot
/ x | / x | / x | / (x) Tyger Tyger burning bright |
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Common Meter
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Alternating iambic tetrameter and trimeter
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Ballad meter
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Common meter with rhyme scheme a b x b
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Blank Verse
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Unrhymed Iambic Pentameter
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Persona
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When the author writes in first person but not from his own viewpoint
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Subjectivity
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Who's point of view
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Antithesis
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When two opposite ideas are presented next to each other
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Line Types
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Couplet
Tercet Quatrain Quintrain Sestet Octave |
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Terza Rima
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aba bcb cdc ded...
Three lines of interlocking rhyme |
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Ottava Rima
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a-b-a-b-a-b-c-c
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anadiplosis
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Silencing: cutting or trailing off a thought
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anacolouthon
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Change of subject
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Epistrophe
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repetition of end of line
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chiasmus
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crossing of phrases
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refrain
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repeated stanza
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sonnet Types
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Shakespearean/English, Italian/Petrarch
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shakespearean sonnet
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ababcdcdefefgg
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Italian Sonnet
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a-b-b-a-a-b-b-a-c-d-e-c-d-e
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Spencerian Sonnet
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a-b-a-b-b-c-b-c-c-d-c-d-e-e
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ode
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3 stanzas. Strophe, Antistrophe, Epode
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elegy
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Death poem
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pastoral
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involves rustic life, shepherds...
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satiric
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Pokes fun at something with sarcasm and irony
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epic
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Really really long poem
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lyric
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Concerns the "I"
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dramatic
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written to be spoken
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sestina
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6 stanza of 6 lines with repeated end words rearranged
7th stanza is 3 lines: envoy |
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ghazal
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rhyming couplets with second line ending in refrain, same meter, more than 5 stanzas
a-a b-a c-a d-a... |
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acrostic
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where first letters of lines spell something
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narrative poem
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tells a story
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genre
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romance
tragedy comedy novel poetry |
