Final Exam Flashcards
(62 cards)
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“The Unknown Citizen”
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W.H. Auden
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“Sestina”
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Elizabeth Bishop
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“How Do I Love Thee”
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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“My Last Duchess”
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Robert Browning
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“I Have Not Lingered in European Monasteries”
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Leonard Cohen
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“Litany”
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Billy Collins
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“anyone lived in a pretty how town”
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e. e. cummings
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“The Sun Rising”
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John Donne
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“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
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T.S. Eliot
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“Design”
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Robert Frost
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“Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat”
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Thomas Gray
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“To an Athlete Dying Young”
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A.E. Houseman
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“Birmingham Sunday”
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Langston Hughes
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“Ballad of Birmingham”
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Dudley Randall
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“Sonnet to Science”
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Edgar Allan Poe
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“To His Coy Mistress”
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Andrew Marvel
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“I, Being Born a Woman and Distressed”
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
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“The Nymph’s Reply”
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Walter Raleigh
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“You All Know the Story of the Other Woman”
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Anne Sexton
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“Ode to the West Wind”
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
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“Epithalamion”
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Edmund Spenser
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“13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird”
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Wallace Stevens
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“Ulysses”
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Alfred Lord Tennyson
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“Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night”
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Dylan Thomas
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"A Satyr Against Reason and Mankind"
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
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Apostrophe
direct address to the audience
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Polysyndeton
extra/unnecessary words
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Asyndeton
absence of connector word(s)
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Personification
attributing a non-human entity with human traits
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Metonymy
substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant (e.g., saying candle light to mean nighttime)
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Anaphora
repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of multiple clauses/sections
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Polyptoton
repetition of words deriving from the same root (e.g., I love thee with a love)
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Catalogue
listing
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Paronomasia
pun (fancy way)
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Alliteration
repetition of consonant sound at the beginning of words
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Turn/Volta
occurrence, typically around the ninth line of a sonnet, of a sudden change of tone/topic... typically presents a resolution to the problem presented in the first nine lines
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End-Stopped
a line in verse which ends with punctuation, showing the end of a phrase or sentence. Does not continue to the next line
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Enjambment
overflow of a line of poetry into the next line
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Oxymoron
phrase containing two contradicting terms (e.g., jumbo shrimp)
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Neologism
word that has been coined by the author, usually to fit the context. (e.g., Percy Bysshe Shelley using the word "skiey" in "Ode to the West Wind"
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Dirge
a funeral song/poem
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Syntactic Deviation
when the syntax of a phrase/sentence/poem deviates typical grammar structure on purpose, for instance, syntactic inversion
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Synesthaesia
combination of senses
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Antithesis
when two opposites are introduced together for contrasting effect (e.g., "it was the best of times, it was the worst of times")
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Epanalepsis
repetition of initial part of a clause at the end of the clause (e.g., "life piled upon life")
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Ellipsis
omission of superfluous/unnecessary words (e.g., "I mine")
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Synecdoche
use of a part to identify a whole (e.g., "nice wheels" = "nice car")
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Anadiplosis
repetition of last word of the preceding sentence
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Parallellism
listing of two or more items to show contrast/parallel between them (e.g., "to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield")
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Anacoluthon
sentence/construction where grammatical structure is absent or jumbled
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One of the oldest forms of poetry; closely related to folk song; has a narrative/tells a story; typically contains stock phrases/characters; dramatic, condensed, impersonal
The Ballad
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14 lines, iambic pentameter; two variations: Petrarchan and English. There is typically a volta/turn near the end.
The Sonnet
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No fixed length, but typically not too long; meant to be a lyric or song; typically written in celebration or praise of something (encomiastic); three (main) variations: Pindaric, Horatian, Irregular.
The Ode
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Not defined by form, but by character; there is a speaker and an implied audience; it is typically best to figure out the character (speaker) based on what they /don't/ say.
Dramatic Monologue
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Very restrictive form: 19 lines, 8 of which are a refrain verse (typically 2 lines); these refrain lines build power throughout the poem, and their meaning usually changes by the end of the poem
The Villanelle
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Blends critical attitude with wit, with the purpose of teaching a lesson and/or improving humanity; typically concerned with human vice and vanity; parody is a subset of this poetic form.
Satire
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u / ; u / ; u /
Iamb
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/ u ; / u ; / u
Trochee
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u u / ; u u / ; u u /
Anapest
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/ u u ; / u u ; / u u
Dactyl
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u u ; u u ; u u
Pyrrhic
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/ / ; / / ; / /
Spondee
