poetry glossary Flashcards
(27 cards)
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ballad
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a traditional narrative poem that is direst, fast-moving and contains brief but telling details. The subjects are often love, war, adventure or travel. Ballads are usually written in quatrains, rhyming ABCB.
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blank verse
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cadence
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caesura
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dramatic monologue
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elegy
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ellipsis
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end-stopped and run-on lines
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epic simile
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epigram
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free verse
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heroic couplets
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lyric
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metre
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monosyllabic and polysyllabic
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quatrain realism and naturalism
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sonnet
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villanelle
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rhyming couplets
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two lines of the same length that rhyme and complete one thought. There is no limit to the length of the lines
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iambic pentameter
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iambic tetrameter
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enjambment
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iambic trimeter
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anapests
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monosyllabic words
a word consisting of one syllable
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octave
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sestet
