Poetry Flashcards

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Polysyllabic

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words have many syllables. The word librarian is polysyllabic, but the word book is not. One syllable is the most prominent

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syllable stress

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(sentence stress)

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Lexical chain (pleasure -read - reading - know -knowledge)

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Rule-breaking is disruption of the grid, which makes the readers question their expectation of regularity.

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Example: A road sign that marks a bicycle lane and has an image of bicycle on it is iconic because the form of the sign, in particular the graphic image on it, is related in a direct way to its meaning; both form and meaning have to do with bicycles

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A famous example of a rhyming couplet is: Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble. In this rhyming couplet, 'trouble' and 'bubble' rhyme

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is simply a stanza made of four lines.

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8 or 6 lines

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The Italian word for “turn,” a volta is a rhetorical shift that marks the change of a thought or argument in a poem. Other common names for volta include turn, fulcrum, or hinge.

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. Narrative poetry: long poems (epic, romance, ballads) Lyric poetry: shorter poems focusing on specific impression or idea

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A persona or voice present their feelings, observations and reflections to an implicit or explicit listener or fictional addressee

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A persona poem is a poem in which the poet speaks through an assumed voice. Also known as a dramatic monologue, this poetic form shares many characteristics with a theatrical monologue: an audience is implied; there is no dialogue; and the poet takes on the voice of a character, a fictional identity, or a persona.

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Voice, simply put, is the person behind the words that speaks out to the audience. It is made up of many poetic elements such as tone, imagery, rhythm, diction, punctuation, and more.

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The techniques, principles and practices of composing verse. Especially in its technical aspects of metre, rhyme, and stanza form the conversion of a prose passage Or word into metrical verse form.

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Regular metrical lines without rhymes Which is a characteristic feature of Shakespeare's plays (usually iambic pentameter)

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a similarity between words in spelling but not in pronunciation, for example love and move. Other deffinition An eye rhyme, also called a visual rhyme or a sight rhyme, is a rhyme in which two words are spelled similarly but pronounced differently.

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is the continuation of a sentence or clause across a line break. For example, the poet John Donne uses enjambment in his poem "The Good-Morrow" when he continues the opening sentence across the line break between the first and second lines: "I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I / Did, till we loved? It’s a syntactic unit that stretch across verse endings.

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Line break or pause within the line (for eksample semi collon)

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Rhyming couplets: aa bb cc Alternate rhyme: abab cdcd Embracing Rhyme: abba cddc Chain rhyme aba bcb cdc Tail rhyme aab ccb

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1. aa bb cc 2. abab cdcd 3. abba cddc 4. aba bcb cdc 5. aab ccb

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a beat in a line of poetry where one stressed syllable is followed by a Unstressed syllable.

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1. * Trimeter 2. * Tetrameter 3. Pentameter 4. Hexameter

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No fixed rhyme or metre but nonetheless rhythm

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Repeating the same words or phrases in a literary work of poetry or prose can bring clarity to an idea and/or make it memorable for the reader.

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repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of lines

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A poetic unit of three lines, rhymed or unrhymed.

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First quatrain: abba Sencond quatrain: abba Together they form an octave = An eight-line stanza or poem. Then a turn (also called volta) The volta, or turn, is a rhetorical shift or dramatic change in thought and/or emotion. Then a six line unit a sekstet) First tercet cde Second terchet: cde

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Iambic pentameter First quatrain: abab Second quatrain: cdcd Third qustrain efef Turn Couplet: gg

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Anything idiomatic relates to expressions that cannot be understood according to their literal meaning, like "it's raining cats and dogs" or "bite the bullet."

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can be divided into to parts 1. The Tenor (what is actually under discussion) 2. The vehicle (Image in terms of which the tenor is represented) Example: Human elephant The metaphor: making believe that tenor and vehicle are identical

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* Example: Life is like a walking shadow. The two things to be compared are sort of spellef out. The comparison itself is made explicit by using words like: like, as…as, more than,

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Synecdoche is a figure of speech in which you use a part of something to stand for the whole thing. If your parents buy you a car and you say that you just got a new set of wheels, you're using synecdoche — you're using the wheels, which are part of a car, to refer to the whole car

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A figure of speech that replaces the name of one thing with the name of something else closely associated with it E.g. Bottle for alcoholic drink, Mozart for Mozart's music

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* A blending confusion of different kinds of sense-impressions in which one type of sensation is referred to in terms more appropriate to another Example: I should hear him fly )instead of I should see him fly)

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The Oxford English Dictionary defines “allegory” as a “story, picture, or other piece of art that uses symbols to convey a hidden or ulterior meaning, typically a moral or political one.

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Situation, incident, idea, image, or character-type that is found in may different literary works, folktales or myths. Or any element of worm that is elaborated into a more general theme.

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A resemblance in sound between two words, or an initial rhyme (see also Alliteration). Consonance can also refer to shared consonants, whether in sequence (“bed” and “bad”) or reversed (“bud” and “dab”). Browse poems with consonance.

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Assonance is the repetition of the vowel sound across words within the lines of the poem creating internal rhymes. Examples of assonance across words include: crying time; hop-scotch; great flakes; between trees; and, the kind knight rides by.

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Onomatopoeia are words that describe or imitate sounds. e.g. Moo, ribbit, shhh

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a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing.

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Hyperbole is a rhetorical and literary technique where an author or speaker intentionally uses exaggeration and overstatement for emphasis and effect. “I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse,” “I've seen this movie a hundred times,” or “It cost an arm and a leg.”

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A concrete or abstract element is presented as if it were alive or human

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In a metaphor the idea is presented as an imaginary identity rather than directly stated as a comparison. Referring to a man as a pig is metaphorical in comparison saying he is like a pig is a simile. Creating a relationship of similarity Metaphors we live by: Life is a journey - has taken a life of is own, it is an essential part of how we think about life

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In fiction, the practice of giving to a character a proper name that defines or suggests a leading quality of that character (such as Squire Allworthy, Doctor Sawbones, little napoleon), is also called antonomasia.

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Description of element by making reference to its characteristics The bleating kind = sheep

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