poetry features Flashcards

(34 cards)

1
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alternating rhyme scheme?

A

ABAB

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rhyming couplets

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AABB

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3
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enclosed rhyme scheme

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ABBA

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4
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sonnet

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14 lines, about love, often lyrical problem and soloution, sestet and octave, has a TURN not a volta

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Petrarchan sonnet

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14 lines, volta, sestet, octave, about love

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dialectical form

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when the poem is written in the way an accent sounds, adds personality

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7
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autobiographical poem

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tells a story or a narrative

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8
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dominant and silent persona

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when a poem seems to be conversational but only one person speaks which is the dominant persona

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9
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lyrical poem

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when it has a musical and paced sound to it

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10
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extended metaphor

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when something is used to represent something else like the deer in who so lost

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11
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alliteration

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same letter at beginning of multiple words

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12
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sibilance

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repetition of S sound had multiple effects in different contexts

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13
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phonology

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use of sounds to create effect

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14
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simile

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saying something is like something else

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15
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double entendre

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multiple meanings to one thing

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16
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anapalestic tretameter

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2 unstressed syllables 1 stressed creates slow rhythm

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anapalestic trimeter

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2 stressed one unstressed creates fast rhythm

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internal rhyme

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when words in a line of the poem rhyme

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syndetic listing

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when a list has connectives

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asyndetic listing

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when a list has commas not connectives

21
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trochaic tretameter

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stressed and unstressed syllables that make the poem have a musical quality like in ae fond kiss

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cyclical structure

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when the poem begins and ends in a similar situation

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anaphora

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when different sentences starts with the same beginning

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syntactic parallel

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repetition among adjacent sentences

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synecdoche
figure of speech when a part of something is used to refer to it as a whole
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volta
the turn in a poem
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synthesia
mixing of senses
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what are quatrains
four line stanzas
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polyptoton
words derived from the same root but with a different ending, indirect way of expressing things
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dichotomy
division or contrast between two things that are represented as opposed or entirely different
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legacy poem
immortalises the voice
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colloquialism
words that are not in ordinary form or un standard grammar
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nomenclature
names that have meaning or significance
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alexandrines
twelve syllable lines in iambic pentameter sounds monotonous when used in r english