Poetry Terminologies

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Metre

Answer 1

measured arrangement of accents and syllables

Question 2

Rhythm

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variation of speed at which a poem is to be read. Can be determined by length of syllables and by how the poem is punctuated

Question 3

Five features that determine rhythm

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end-stopped lines, enjabment, caesura, vowel length, consonant clusters

Question 4

End-stopped lines

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Lines where a sentence comes to close at the end of the line, thus causing pause and disrupts the rhythm, prompt reader to dwell on individual words

Question 5

Enjabment

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Where the sentence carries over into the next line. Enjabment diminishes pause and thus speeds up rhythm

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Caesura

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when punctuation is used to create a pause within a line. Draws emphasis to certain words

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Vowel Length

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Supports a slower rhythm

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Consonant Clusters

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supports a faster rhythm

Question 9

Full rhyme

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2 rhyming words begin with a different consonant sound, then have the vowel sound, and end with the same consonant sound( night/delight)

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Half Rhyme

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When only single consonant or vowel sounds are the same( consonance, assonance)

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End Rhyme

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Rhyme at the end of line

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Internal Rhyme:

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Rhyme within a line

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Rhyme Patterns

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Such as continuous (aaaa bbbb), rhyming couplet (aa bb cc), alternative rhyme (abab cdcd)help to divide a poem into sections

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Onomatopoeia

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when the sound of word when spoken imitates the sound to which it refers

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Stanza

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the units into which the lines of a poem are separated

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Couplet

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stanza comprising of two lines of verse with various rhyme patterns

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Tercet

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stanza comprising of three lines with various rhyme patterns

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Quatrain

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stanza comprising of four lines of verse with various rhyme patterns

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Quintet

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stanza comprising of five lines of verse with various rhyme patterns

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Sestet

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stanza comprising of six lines of verse with various rhyme patterns

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Octet

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stanza comprising of eight lines of verse with various rhyme patterns

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Allusion

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A brief, intentional reference to a historical, mythic, or literary person, place, event, or movement

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Antithesis

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when words and phrases with opposite meaning and implications are used to achieve contrast

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Hyperbole

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deliberate exaggeration for effect

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Irony

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Expressing an implied meaning that is different to the meaning directly stated

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Metaphor

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A direct comparison

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Personification

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A figure of speech in which an abstraction, thing, or non-human form is described as though it were human

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Simile

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An indirect comparison made with like or as

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Symbolism

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when an object contained within the fictional world of the text represents another abstract meaning

Question 30

Understatement

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Deliberate downplaying of a thing's importance or significance

Question 31

Zoomorphism

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the attribution of animal characteristics or an inanimate thing

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Sensory imagery

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language and description that invokes the sense ( visual, auditory, olfactory, tactile, gustatory, kinaesthetic)

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Synaesthesia

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when the invocation of one sense is described as simultaneously invoking another

Question 34

Sonnet

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Usually a single stanza of fourteen lines or an octet followed by a sestet. Written in iambic pentameter and deals with loft subject matter

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Ballad

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a song which tells a story. Usually contains quatrains

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Lyric

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short, non-narrative poem in which a single speaker presents a state of mind or emotional state

Question 37

Free verse

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verse which does not rhyme and which has lines of varying lengths according to the ebb and flow of the poet's emotions