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Unseen Poetry terms Flashcards

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Alliteration

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Repetition of initial consonant sounds

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Anaphora

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Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines

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Anadiplosis

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Repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause.

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Allusion

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A reference to another work of literature, person, or event

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Hyperbole

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exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

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Sibilance

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A type of alliteration in which the “s” sound is repeated.

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Sapphic meter

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Found in quatrains where the first 3 lines have 11 syllables and the 4th has 5

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In media res

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a piece of writing that begins in the middle of the action

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Internal rhyme

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A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line

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Irony

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A contrast between expectation and reality

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Tercet

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Stanza containing three lines

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Quatrain

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Stanza containing 4 lines

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Mesodiplosis

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Repetition of words in the middle of successive clauses

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Zoomorphism

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Giving a person animal qualities.

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Ekphrasis

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The poetic representation of a painting or sculpture in words

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Verisimilitude

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the quality of appearing to be true, real, likely, or probable

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Paradox

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A seemingly contradictory statement such as “you have to be cruel to be kind”

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Polyptoton

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Repetition of a word but in different forms e.g. “sleep” “sleeping”

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Phallic imagery

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When language alludes to the male sexual anatomy

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Pleonasm

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The use of more than one word or phrase with the same meaning

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Passive voice

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The subject of the sentence receives the action.

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Parallelism

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The repetition of a similar structure across a few clauses or phrase

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Neologism

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A newly created word

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Plosives

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Words beginning with b, d, p, k, g, t which can imply a certain mood of attitude to a sentence.

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Diacope

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Repetition broken up by one or more intervening words

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Deixis

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Words that are context-bound where meaning depends on who is being referred to, where something is happening or when it is happening.

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Anachronism

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something out of the proper time

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Colloquialism

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A word or phrase (including slang) used in everyday conversation and informal writing but that is often inappropriate in formal writing (y’all, ain’t)

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Epistrophe

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repetition of the same word or groups of words at the ends of successive clauses

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Interrogative

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Asks a question

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Figurative language

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Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling.

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Pastoral

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Literature regarding the pulchritude of country/agricultural life

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Iambic pentameter

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a poetic meter that is made up of 5 stressed syllables each followed by an unstressed syllable

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Euphemism

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An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant

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Hyperbaton

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Reversal of the normal word order

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Free verse

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Poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular rhythm

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Oxymoron

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A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.

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Volta

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A point of change in a poem

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Caesura

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A strong pause or break in a line of poetry, usually near the middle of the line.

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Modal auxiliary verb

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A helping verb (e.g., can, could, may, might) that indicates ability, intention, or probability.Modal auxiliary verb

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Enjambment

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when one line ends without a pause and continues into the next line for its meaning

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Assonance

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Repetition of vowel sounds

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Ode

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A lyric stanza that usually addresses an event or individual (usually emotive)

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Jargon

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special words or expressions that are used by a particular profession or group and are difficult for others to understand.

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Haiku

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A japanese form of poetry, consisting of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables

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Meter

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a regular repeating rhythm, divided for convenience into feet.

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Metonymy

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a figure of speech in which something is represented by another thing that is commonly and often physically associated with it.

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Imagery

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Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)

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Pathetic falacy

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When weather or setting is used to emphasise the mood or Tone

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Periphrasis

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the use of indirect and circumlocutory speech or writing

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Pleonasm

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use of superfluous or redundant words, often enriching the thought

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