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17 Cards in this Set
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Poetry
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A type of literature that expresses ideas, feelings, or tells a story in a specific form (stanzas)
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Poet
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The author of the poem
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Mood
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The feeling created by a a poem
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Tone
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A writer's attitude toward his/her subject and audience
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Lyric Poem
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-A short poem usually written in 1st person
-expresses the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker -focuses on a single image or idea |
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Narrative Poem
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-A poem that tells a story
-Characters and plot are established |
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Stanza
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A group of lines often seperated by spaces; named according to the number of lines found in them
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Couplet
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a pair of rhyming lines; usually of the same length and meter
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Quatrin
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a 4-line stanza with a rhyming pattern
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Rhythm
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the patterned flow of sound in the poetry; the beat created by the sounds of the words. Can be created by meter, rhyme, assonance, or alliteration.
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Meter
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A rhythmical pattern of alternating stressed and unstressed
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Rhyme
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The repetition of sounds at the end of words
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End Rhyme
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A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another word on the same line
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Internal Rhyme
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A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line
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Rhyme Scheme
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-a regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem
-indicated by using different letters for each new rhyme |
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Assonance
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the repetition of the same vowel sound within nearby words
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Extended Metaphor
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a metaphor which is drawn out beyond the usual word or phrase to extend throughout a stanza or an entire poem and uses multiple comparisons
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