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Poetry Flashcards

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Iambic (feet)

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Unstressed - stressed

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Trochaic

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Stressed - unstressed

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Spondaic

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Stressed - stressed

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Anapestic

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Unstressed - unstressed- stressed

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Dactylic

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Stressed - unstressed - unstressed

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Monometer

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One foot per line

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Pentameter

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Five feet per line

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Hexameter

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Six feet per line

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Enjambement

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an enjambed line means the line continues a sentence without a pause beyond the end of that line or stanza (the pause is typically indicated through punctuation as most clauses and sentences terminate with punctuation as a boundary).

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End stopping

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an end-stopped line means the phrase, clause, or sentence is completed by the end of the line–often you see a piece of punctuation telling you to stop or pause significantly.

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Caesura

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a pause within a line of poetry, typically indicated by punctuation. Traditionally, this term meant a pause in the metrical pattern of the line.

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Ambiguity

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the presence of two or more ideas in a word, statement, image, or poem (ambiguity is another element that often characterizes poetry as a genre)

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Setting

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the time (season, time of day, historical period, etc.) and location (environment, indoors/outdoors, geography/culture) of what’s happening in the poem

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Diction

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The poet’s word choices

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Conventional acrostic

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First letter of each line spells out a word or phrase

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Telestich acrostic

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The last letter of each line is used to form a word of phrase

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Golden shovel

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The whole last word is used for the message

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Limericks Poem

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  • Five line poem with a single stanza
  • Telling a short playful tale with a comedic tone
    AABBA rhythm theme
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Prose poetry

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  • Can take many different shapes
  • Novels, plays or paragraph shape
  • Can look like a conversation
  • TONS of figuratives language, sound devices etc - Full of imagery
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Acrostic Poems

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“Hidden” message within the poem
- Conventional
- Double
- Abecedarian
- Mesostich (word at the middle of the poem)
- Telestich (Last letter)
- The Golden Shovel (Whole last word)

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Elegy

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  • Driven by lament - often about someone who’s died - also about a relationship or a feeling that died - generally written in first person
  • Really lyrical
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Sonnet

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  • Theme of love
  • The Italian sonnet: 14 lines - Iambic pentameter / Broken into an octave and a sestet / Rhyme scheme: AABBAABBA CDECDE or ABBAABBA CDCDCD
  • The English sonnet: 14 lines - Iambic pentameter / three quatrains and a couplet / Rhyme scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
  • Modern form: most modern keep the 14 lines
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Concrete Poetry

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  • Contain geometrical figures shape that add to the expression of the poem
  • Verbivocovisual expression
    Syllables - Letters - Punctuation - Spaces and empty spaces
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Pantoum Poetry

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Format:
Line A
Line B
Line C
Line D

Line B
Line E
Line D
Line F

Line E
Line C
Line F
Line A

Repetition
Quatrains
Changing ponctuation
2-3 stanzas (no limit for the modern one)

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Villanelle Poetry

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  • Five tercets and a final quatrains
  • The first and third lines of the first stanza repeat alternately in the following stanzas
  • ABA rhyme scheme for tercets
  • ABAA rhyme scheme for final quatrain
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Ballad Poetry

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  • Oral storytelling set to music
  • Used to tell stories, themes of religion, love, tragedy
  • Often alternate four stress and three stress lines
  • Show rather than tell
  • Rhymed ABCB quatrains
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Queer poetry

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  • No rules
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Found Poetry

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  • Created from other written works, typically ones that people wouldn’t see as poetic.
  • Two methods: Erasure or Cut Up
    Cut Up: Collage
    Erasure: blacks out or erase other words
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Nature poetry

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  • Can be of any type of poetry
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Chremamorphism

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Attributing properties of inanimate objects to humans or animals

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Symbol

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An object, setting, event, animal, or person that on one level is itself, but that has another abstract or complex meaning as well beyond its literal meaning

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Allusion

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A reference to a historical, mythical, or literary person, place, event, text, etc. Outside of the poem

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Euphemism

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A type of understatement that substitutes for a word or image that might otherwise offend or hurt.
Exemple: “She was at rest” when speaking of death

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Irony

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Exemple: “I love when you drool on my pillow”

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Litotes

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Use negatives to suggest the affirmative

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Metonymy

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A directly related term is substitute for an object or idea.
Exemple: “We have remained loyal to the crown”

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Synecdoche

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A part of something is used to represent the whole
Ex: wheels for car or saying “lend me a hand”

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Apostrophe

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Oh!
- A writer or speaker addresses someone who is not present or is dead, or speaks to an inanimate object or abstract concept that cannot respond. EX: “Thank you, oven, for making this excellent bread!”

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Anthimeria (or antimeria)

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Using a word in a new grammatical form. Ex: “green tigering the gold”

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Triolet

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABaAabAB
  • Short, 1 stanza, 8 lines
  • Usually satirical and humorous
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Ekphrasis

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Defined by its content
- Describing, interpreting, or inferring about something tangible

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Ghazal

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  • Often performed in song and deals with a wide range of moods and themes
  • Minimum of five couplets and max of 15
  • no syllable requirement
    Theme of romantic love or dealing with loss
  • Second line, or word or phrase in it, of each couplet repeats
  • Last word of each couplet rhymes

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