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english 2 midterm exam Flashcards

1
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meter

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emotional stimulus and may heighten the readers attention to what the poem is saying

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2
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verse

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both meter and rhyme

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3
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blank verse

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meter but no rhyme

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4
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free verse

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natural cadence of speech

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5
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iambic

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de dumm

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trochaic

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dumm de

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7
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anapestic

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de de dumm

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8
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dactylic

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dumm de de

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9
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1 foot

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monometer

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10
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two feet

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dimeter

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3 feet

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trimeter

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four feet

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tetrameter

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13
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five feet

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pentameter

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14
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6 ft

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hexameter

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15
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7ft

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heptameter

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16
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8ft

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octameter

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17
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9ft

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nonameter

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18
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caesura

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when a pause takes the place of an unaccented symbol

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19
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scansion

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marking lines of poetry to show the number of feet

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20
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imperfect,eye,slant rhyme

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looks like it would ryhme but sounds different said aloud

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21
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internal rhyme

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where a word inside the line rhymes with the end word

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22
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assonance

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repetition of vowel sound in stressed syllables that end with different consonant sounds

23
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consonance

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repetition of consonants at the end or middle of words in a line

24
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euphony

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harmonious sounds

25
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cacophony

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harsh inharmonious

26
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conceit

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extended metaphor

27
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antithesis

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opposing ideasbalanced against each other in gramatically parallel syntax

28
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apostrophe

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an adress to some abstract quality or quantityor to as nonexistent personage

29
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literary allusionc

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metaphorical reference to other literature

30
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understatement

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less than is true

31
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paradox

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statementcontaining two seemingly contradictory terms but contain an element of truth

32
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synecdoche

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metaphor where part stands for the whole or the whole stands for a part

33
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metonomy

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not naming the object itself but another word

34
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couplet

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2 lines of poetry

35
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tercets

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3 lines of poetry

36
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terza rima

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tercets linked by rhyme

37
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ryhme royal

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7 pentameter

38
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spensarian stanza

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8 lines iambic pentameter then 6 lines iambic hexameter

39
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sonnet

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14 lines of iambic pentameter

40
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elizabethan sonnet

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3 quatrains then a couplet abab cdcd efef gg

41
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italian sonnet

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8 lines octet of iambic pentameter followed by six lines sestet of i ambic pentameter abba abba cde cde or cd cd ee

42
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ode

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short elaborate metrical formdignified toward a thing of neauty or interest

43
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elegy

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poem of mourning

44
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epigram

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short witty statement in the form of apoem

45
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aubade

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poem about dawn

46
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pastoral

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poem dealing w country life

47
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dramatic

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some1 is talking to ppl but their responses r not included

48
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epitaph

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gravestone

49
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classical

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formal high stucture elevated vocab

50
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romantic

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imaginative nature love adventure strict metrical patterns

51
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realistic

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presents everyday life no glossing

52
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psychological

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mans inner thoughts needs and motivation

53
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abstract

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symbolic contains poets personal views

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