Flashcard Set (Poetry)

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*anastrophe.

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A rhetorical term for the inversion of the normal order of the parts of a sentence. Writers, especially poets, use anastrophe to place emphasis on a word or idea

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*apostrophe.

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The device, usually in poetry, of calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person, or to a place, thing, or personified abstraction either to begin a poem or to make a dramatic break in thought somewhere within the poem

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*assonance.

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The close repetition of middle vowel sounds between different consonant sounds: fade/pale

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*cacophony.

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Harsh, clashing, or dissonant sounds, often produced by combinations of words that require a clipped, explosive delivery

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*caesura.

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A pause within a line of poetry, often resulting from the natural rhythm of language and not necessarily indicated by punctuation

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*conceit.

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An elaborate figure of speech comparing two very dissimilar things

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*consonance.

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The close repetition of identical consonant sounds before and after differing vowel sounds: leave/love, short/shirt

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*denotation

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The precise, literal meaning of a word, without emotional associations or overtones

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*enjambment.

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The carrying of sense and grammatical structure in a poem beyond the end of one line, couplet, or stanza and into the next. Enjambment occurs with the use of run-on lines

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*euphony.

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A succession of sweetly melodious sounds; the opposite of cacophony.

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*Homeric epithet

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A hyphenated adjective used repeatedly in conjunction with the same noun, so as to form a unit of expression

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*kenning.

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A metaphoric compound word or phrase used as a synonym for a common noun

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*metonymy.

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A figure of speech that substitutes the name of a related object, person, or idea for the subject at hand

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*parallelism.

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The technique of showing that words, phrases, clauses, or larger structures are comparable in content and importance by placing them side by side and making them similar in form.

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*synechdoche.

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A figure of speech in which a part of something stands for the whole thing

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*scansion.

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Analyzing the meter in lines of poetry by counting and marking the accented and unaccented syllables, dividing the lines into metrical feet, and showing the major pauses, if any, within the line.

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*foot.

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The basic unit of rhythmic measurement in a line of poetry. A foot consists of at least one accented (stressed) syllable and one or more unaccented (unstressed) syllables

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*iambic foot.

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one unaccented syllable followed by one accented syllable

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*trochee (trochaic foot)

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one accented syllable followed by one unaccented syllable:

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*anapest (anapestic foot)

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two unaccented syllables followed by one accented syllable

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*dactyl (dactylic foot)

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one accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables:

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*spondee (spondaic foot)

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two accented syllables

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*meter

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The fixed (or nearly fixed) pattern of accented and unaccented syllables in the lines of a poem that produces its pervasive rhythm.

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*blank verse

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Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter. Blank verse should not be confused with free verse. It is “blank” only in the sense that its lines do not rhyme; it is not metrically blank

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*couplet
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme and that are written to the same meter, or pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
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*elegy
A poem of sorrow or mourning for the dead; also a reflective poem in a solemn or sorrowful mood.
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*free verse
it is "free" of the regular beat of meter, depending instead on the individual poet's sensitivity to the music of natural speech rhythms. Free verse lacks rhyme and often has irregular line lengths and fragmentary syntax.
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*idyll.
A short descriptive and narrative piece, usually a poem, about picturesque country life, an idealized story of happy innocence
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*ode.
A long and elaborate lyric poem
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*sonnet
A fourteen-line lyric poem in iambic pentameter.
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*villanelle
A lyric poem made up of five stanzas of three lines (tercets), plus a final stanza of four lines (quatrain). In the tercets, the rhyme scheme is aba; in the quatrain, it is abaa
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ballad
A simple narrative poem, often incorporating dialogue that is written in quatrains, generally with a rhyme scheme of ABCD.
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Ballad meter
a four-line stanza rhymed abcd with four feet in lines 1 and 3 and three feet in lines 2 and 4
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Blank Verse
unrhymed iambic pentameter
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blank verse
unrhymed iambic pentameter
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Caesura
a pause within a line of poetry, usually marked by a piece of punctuation
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Dactyl
a metrical foot composed of an accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables
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End-stopped
a line of poetry with a pause at the end of the line
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Enjambement/enjambment
a line of poetry which runs on into the next line because it has no punctuation at the end of the first line
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free verse
poetry not written in a tradtional meter but is still rhythmical
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hexameter
a line cotaining six feet
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Iamb
a metrical foot composed of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable; the most common foot in English poetry
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metrical terms
alliteration,assonance,ballad meter,blank verse,dactyl,end-stopped,free verse,....
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sonnet
normally a 14-line iambic pentameter poem
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Stanza
usually a repeated grouping of three or more lines with the same meter and rhyme scheme
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terza rima
a three line stanza rhymed aba,bcb,cdc
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Tetrameter
a line of four feet