What Is Poetry?

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What is a simile?

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A comparison between two unlike objects using “like,as, than,”

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What is a metaphor?

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A comparison between two unlike objects with no special connectives, just straight-forward assertion

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What is a personification

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Giving non human objects human characteristics

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What is metonymy

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The use of a symbol for the literal thing intended

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What is a synecdoche

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The use part for the whole literal thing intended, like metonymy but not symbolic

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What is a pun

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A play on words for humorous effect or double entendre

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What is a hyperbole

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An overstatement or exaggeration

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What is a Understatement

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Saying less than one means

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What is a paradox

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A seeming contradiction that is somehow true

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What is irony

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Intending words to mean the opposite of what they literally say

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What is sarcasm

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Irony intended to be cutting or hurtful

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What is an oxymoron

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A paradox compressed into two mutually contradictory words

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What is an apostrophe

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Direct address of someone deceased or absent

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What is a litotes

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Saying something positive with a double negative “not not”

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What is an antithesis

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Juxtaposed contrasting ideas like a negative parallel structure
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What is Parallelism

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Parallel structure, balancing similar ideas in similar grammatical structures

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What is an Allusion

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An intention reference to something in history or literature

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What is rhythm

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The flow of cadence-like the varied drum beat of a marching band

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What is scanning

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The process by which we identify and label the meter of a poem

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What is a foot or feet

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A foot is a single piece of meter composed of one accented syllable and one or more unaccented syllables

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What is an iambic meter

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Unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable- soft-loud

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What is a trochaic meter

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Accented syllable followed by an unaccented one- loud-soft

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What is an anapestic meter

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Two unaccented syllables followed by one accented- soft-soft-loud

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What is a dactylic meter

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Accented syllable followed by two unaccented ones- loud-soft-soft

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What is a spondaic meter

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Two consecutive syllable equally stressed like heartbreak or cheesecake

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What is a caesura meter

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A natural but unpunctuated pause in a line of poetry like the splendor falls // on castle walls...

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What is a monometer

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One meter per line

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What is a dimeter

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Two meters per line

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What is a trimeter

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Three meters per line

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What is a tetrameter

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Four meters per line

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What is a pentameter

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Five meters per line

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What is a hexameter

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Six meters per line

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What is diction and what are the three reasons for using it

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Diction is a way to express the literal meaning and then intensify that meaning The three reasons for word choice are denotation, connotation and sound

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What are the two levels of meaning in a porm

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Literal and symbolic meaning

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What is euphony

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An easily pronounced combination of vowels and consonants; speed up the tempo

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What is cacophony

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A difficult to pronounce combination of of vowels and consonants ; slows down the tempo

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What is omomatopoeia

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A combination of letters whose sound suggests the meaning of key form words

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What is alliteration

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Intentional repetition of the same consonant sound

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What is assonance

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Intentional repetition of the same vowel sound

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What is a rhyme

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The use of words that sound the same from their accented syllable to the end

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What is internal rhyme

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Words within a single line of print that intentionally sound alike

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What is end rhyme

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Words at the end of nearby lines that intentionally sound alike

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What is masculine rhyme

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Ending words whose final syllables are accented and sound alike

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What is feminine rhyme

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Ending words with syllables other than the last that are accented and sound alike

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What is slant rhyme

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Words that almost but not quite sound alike

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What is weak rhyme

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Words that sound alike but whose rhyming syllables are not accented

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What is tone

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The poets attitude towards his subject

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What are the three structures of poetry?

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Continuous form, stanzaic form,and fixed form

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What is continuous form

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Aka free verse is an open ended structure in which lines follow each other with no required meter

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What is stanzaic form

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Is a series of units having the same number of lines,the same metric pattern and usually the same rhyme scheme

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What is fixed form

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Another traditional structure in which the length of the poem is predetermined as well as the metrical pattern and rhyme scheme

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What are the four tools in understanding poetry?

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Imagery, rhythm, diction, and tone