poetry terms

Question 1

the person who is expressing a point of view in the poem

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speaker

Question 2

poem “paragraphs” indicated by a line break

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stanza

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refers to any wavelike recurrence of motion or sound

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rhythm

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the repetition of accented and unaccented syllables in an intentional pattern

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meter

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basic measurement of meter, made up of two or three syllables, separated with a vertical line
- consists of one accented plus two unaccented or stressed and unstressed

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foot

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marking of poetry’s feet and stress

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scansion

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how do you name a poem’s meter?

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multiply the “kind of foot” by the number of feet of that kind in the line

Question 8

unstressed, stressed

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iambic

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stressed unstressed

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trochaic

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unstressed, unstressed, stressed

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anapestic

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stressed, unstressed, unstressed

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dactylic

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stressed, stressed

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spondee/spondaic

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unstressed, unstressed

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pyrrhic

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one of the oldest, strictest and most enduring fixed forms, typically contrast two ideas, emotions, etc.

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sonnet

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poem that may be categorized by the pattern of its lines, meter, rhyme, or stanza

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fixed form

Question 16

14 lines
- iambic pentameter
- volta before final couplet
- three quatrains presents argument or developed situation
- couplet concludes, amplifies, or refutes

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english sonnet

Question 17

14 lines
- iambic pentameter
- volta between octave and sestet
- octave presents argument/question
- sestet counterargument, clarification, or answer

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italian sonnet

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the shift in ideas or tone in a poem?

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volta

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19 lines, 5 tercets, one quatrain, 2 repeating rhymes and 2 refrains
- heavy repetition and emphasis to make a point

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villanelle

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poetry that does not rhyme, but typically has meter

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blank verse

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is a short poem expressing the personal thoughts and feelings of a first-person speaker

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lyric poetry

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poetry that does not have meter or rhyme

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open form/ free verse

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used to mediate on or address a single subject/object or condition
- often reveal themselves by the end or the title

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ode

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originally transmitted orally from generation to generation they are narratives and typically written in four-line stanzas alternating 8/6 syllables per line, lines 2 and 4 typically rhyme

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ballad

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mournful lyric poem written to commemorate someone who is dead -- often ends with consolation, also announced in the title

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elegy

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long narrative poems told in a formal, elevated style, focus on serious subject and chronicle heroic deeds and important events to a culture or notion

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epics

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appears like prose, but reads like poetry

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prose poem

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the repetition of the accented vowel sound and any succeeding consonant sounds

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rhyme

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rhyming words at the end of lines

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end rhyme

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one or more words within the line rhyme

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internal rhyme

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words with a sound similarity, but not an exact rhyme, also called near rhyme, approximate rhyme, or half rhyme

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slant rhyme

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rhymes made up of one syllable

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masculine rhyme (cat, hat, tears, and years)

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made up of two or more syllables

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feminine rhymes

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repetition of the same initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words or syllables (holly, jolly, folly)

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alliteration

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identical final consonant sounds in nearby words follow different vowel sounds (first, last, crust, most)

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consonance

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repetition of vowel sounds in a sequence of words (sleep, sheep, beep, keen, dream)

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assonance

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words that refer to sounds and whose pronunciations mimic those sounds

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onomatopoeia

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concludes with punctuation that makes a pause OR the line can be understood on its own

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end-stopped line

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one line ends without pause and must continue to the next line to complete the line's meaning

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enjambment