Poetry Flashcards
(62 cards)
1
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euphony
A
pleasant sounds
2
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sonnet
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14 line poem
3
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personification
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giving human like qualities to non-human things
4
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quatrain
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4 lines
5
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volta
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line 9 change
6
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motif
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repeated literary device that contributes to a theme
7
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speaker
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narrator of a poem
8
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diction
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word choice
9
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/
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stressed
10
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u
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unstressed
11
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mood
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atmosphere
12
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seplet
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7 lines
13
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elegy
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poem written to honor a death
14
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octave
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8 lines
15
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couplet
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2 lines
16
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onomonopeia
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sound words
17
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tercet
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3 lines
18
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sestet
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6 lines
19
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allusion
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reference to something well known
20
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cinquain
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5 lines
21
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pentameter
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5 feet
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Shakespearean/English sonnet rhyme scheme
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A B A B C D C D E F E F G G
23
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ode
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poem elevating the addressed subject
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metaphor
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direct comparison
25
enjambment
running on of a line or stanza
26
hyperbole
overexaggeration
27
cacophony
harsh sounds
28
persona
speakers character
29
Italian/Petrarchan sonnet rhyme scheme
A B B A A B B A C D E C E D
30
simile
comparison using like or as
31
tone
attitude
32
ballad
simple, narrative, written in quatrains, has a refrain
33
stanza
group of lines
34
aubade
love poem at dawn that bids farewell to a beloved
35
meter
pattern of beats in poetry
36
masculine rhyme
end rhyme (1 syllable)
37
symbol
represents something else
38
iamb
unstressed, stressed
39
theme
main idea
40
alliteration
repeating consonant sound
41
apostrophe
direct address to person/object that is not present
42
feminine rhyme
two syllables rhyme with the first unstressed
43
anapest
unstressed unstressed stressed
44
blank verse
non rhyming iambic pentameter
45
free verse
non rhyming verse
46
monometer
1 line
47
dimeter
2 feet
48
trimeter
3 feet
49
tetrameter
4 feet
50
pentameter
5 feet
51
hexameter
6 feet
52
heptameter
7 feet
53
octameter
8 feet
54
nanometer
9 feet
55
trochee
stressed unstressed
56
dactyl
stressed unstressed unstressed
57
spondee
stressed stressed
58
Spenserian sonnet rhyme scheme
A B A B B C B C C D C D E E
59
villanelle
6 stanzas (five tercets and 1 quatrain)
60
internal rhyme
occur within the line
61
lyric
highly personal and emotional, reflective in tone
62
dramatic monologue
relates an episode in a speakers life through a conversational format
