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Poetry Terminology Flashcards

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What is Alliteration?

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The repetition of beginning consonant sounds in multiple words

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What is Anaphora?

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A rhetorical device that consists of repeating a sequence of words, giving emphasis.

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What is Assonance?

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The repetition of identical or similar phonemes in words e.g claps, hands, stamps.

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What is Blank Verse?

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A poetic form that uses a regular poetic meter without rhyme.

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What is a Caesura?

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A break between words/in a verse, not end-stopped.

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What is Concrete Poetry / Kinetic Poetry / Shape Poetry?

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A literary movement that uses the arrangement of words, letters and symbols to convey meaning through visual effects. Blends the visual and the verbal.

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What is Diction?

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The choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing.

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What is a Dramatic Monologue?

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A long speech by a character in a text, which reveals thoughts and feelings.

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What is an Elegy / Elegiac Poem?

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A poem of serious reflection, often lamenting the dead.

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What is Ellipsis?

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Omits a portion of the sequence of events, allows reader to fill narrative gaps (…)

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What is End-Stopping?

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The line ending with a complete thought or phrase, marked by a period. (.)

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What is Enjambment?

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The continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of the line, or run-on sentences in poetry.

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What is Epic?

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A long narrative poem retelling the story of a hero/hero’s deeds.

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What is an Eye-Rhyme?

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A similarity between words visually, but not in pronunciation.

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What is Form?

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The structure of the poem that dictates how it is written.

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What is Found Poetry?

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A poem that uses words, phrases or passages from other sources, often rearranges this text to create new meaning e.g adding/deleting.

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What is Free Verse?

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A poem without rhythm or a regular rhyme; freely structured.

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What is a Full Rhyme?

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2 or more words that rhyme both visually and in pronunciation.

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What is a Half Rhyme?

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2 or more words where only their final consonant sound rhymes, not the rest of the word. E.g bag and bug

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What are Heroic Couplets?

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A pair of rhyming couplets, typically written in iambic pent, to describe heroic deeds/heroes.

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What is Iamb?

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2 syllables of a line: one unstressed, another stressed. E.g unite, provide.

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What is Iambic Pentameter?

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A line of blank verse that consists of one unstressed syllable (short) followed by a stress syllable (long) = 10 syllables.

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What is Imagery?

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Visually descriptive or figurative language in poetry,

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What is an Internal Rhyme?

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A rhyme in the middle of a line and another at the end of a line, or in the middle of the next.

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What is Lyric?
A type of poetry that expresses thoughts/feelings of the speaker, often having a musical quality.
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What is a Metaphor?
Describing something by saying that it is something else, applying a phrase/word to an object without it literally being that object = symbolic.
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What is Metre?
The rhythmic structure of a line or verse.
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What is Mood?
The overall tone, feeling or atmosphere created in a poem.
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What is a Narrative Poem?
A poem that tells a literal story, often with a deeper meaning.
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What is an Octet?
A stanza or poem that has 8 lines.
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What is an Ode?
A lyric poem often used to address a singular person/ a short poem to address an event, person or idea.
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What is Onomatopoeia?
A literary device used to describe what sounds sound like. E.g slam, boom, splash, crash.
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What is an Oxymoron?
A literary device that combines two seemingly contradictory words to form a thought-provoking idea.
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What is Personification?
Giving something non-human human qualities.
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What is a Quatrain?
A 4 line stanza.
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What is Rhyme?
Words having similar sounds, consonants, etc, in a poem/the repetition of syllables.
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What is a Rhyme Scheme?
A pattern of rhymes in a poem.
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What is Rhythm?
The beat and flow of a poem, created by rhyme or patterns of stressed/unstressed syllables.
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What is a Sestet?
A 6 line stanza.
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What is Sestina?
A fixed form of poetry consisting of six stanzas with six lines each.
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What is Sibilance?
A literary device that uses the repetition of hissing sounds to create effect in poetry. "s", "sh", "z"
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What is a Simile?
A comparison between two things using "like" or "as"
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What is a Sonnet?
A poem with 14 lines and a strict rhyme scheme, often about love, grief, beauty, etc, usually ends with a change in the poet's perspective.
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What is a Stanza?
A paragraph of a poem = prefix derived from 'to stand'
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What is Structure?
The way words, stanzas and elements of a poem are organised on the page. E.g line lengths, number of lines and rhyme.
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What is Syntax?
The arrangement of language and order of words within a line or sentence.
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What is Lexis / a Lexical Set?
Vocabulary that share a common meaning, sound, or part of speech. The level of language consisting of vocabulary, and how words are combined/grouped together to convey meaning.
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What is Tone?
The attitude or feeling a poet conveys towards their subject matter, speaker or audience.
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What is a Villanelle?
A poem of 19 lines with a strict rhyme scheme: five tercets then one quatrain.
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What is a Tercet
A 3-line stanza.
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What is a Voice?
The style of a poem that conveys the speaker's attitude and personality e.g tone, diction, syntax etc.
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What is Volta?
A dramatic shift in a poem's tone or argument: marks a thought of change, occurs in different places depending on the poem. Shakespearean = before final couplet. Petrarchan = between octave and sestet.
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What is Typography?
Arranging type to make a written language visually appealing, readable and legible = style, arrangement, appearance of letters.
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What is a Paradox?
A seemingly contradictory statement which is, ironically, true when the meaning is fully investigated. Seems illogical at first.
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What is an Envoi?
A short concluding stanza in a poem that summarises or comments on the poem, or serves as its dedication.
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What is an Apostrophe in poetry?
A figure of speech where the speaker directly addresses someone/something that is not present and cannot respond in reality.
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What is a Refrain?
A line or group of lines that regularly repeat.

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