Creative Writing – Poetry – Flashcards
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Genres
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Particular categories of literary work
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Pedagogy
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theory of teaching
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aesthetic
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a sense of what you want to see in a work of art
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allusions
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references
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revision
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the act of reconsidering and altering a piece of writing
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free verse
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a composition not in metrical writing
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prose poem
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a composition that looks very much like the paragraph you are now reading but has all the heightened, compressed, and figurative language found in poetry.
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prose
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the ordinary language of writing and speaking
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cliché
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an overused phrase or formulaic structure with a predictable conclusion
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etymology
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derivation
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imagery
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mental pictures or impressions that evoke one of the five senses
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lines
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those entities that begin on the left side of the page and end somewhere on the right
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stanzas
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are made by grouping lines together
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meter
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a regular pattern of accented and unaccented syllables
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rhythm
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a variable but nevertheless recognizable pattern of strong and weak elements in a poem (usually used instead of meter when describing prose)
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symbols
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acts, sounds, or objects that signify something other than themselves
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diction
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the choice of the words themselves
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syntax
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the way that words are put together to form phrases in a sentence
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lyric poem
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"any fairly short, non-narrative poem presenting a single speaker who expresses a state of mind or a process of thought and feeling" (Defined by M. H. Abrams)
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narrative
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storytelling
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chapbooks
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a short book of poetry, usually fewer than thirty-two pages
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end-stopped
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a line that ends with any sort of punctuation (a period, semicolon, comma, or dash)
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enjambment
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to wrap a line in the middle of a sentence so that related words are in different poetic lines
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couplet
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two lines of verse that are connected in some way
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tercet
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a group of three lines
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quatrain
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a group of four lines of poetry
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quintet
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five lines
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sestet
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six lines
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septet
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seven lines
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octet
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eight lines
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meter (second definition)
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the arrangement of words in a poem based on the relative stress of their syllables
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scansion
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the process of counting the number of stressed and unstressed syllables and analyzing their patterns
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foot
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the basic metrical unit in poetry
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iamb (iambic)
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trochee (trochaic)
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anapest (anapestic)
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dactyl (dactylic)
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spondee (spondaic)
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pyrrhic (pyrrhic)
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monometer
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one foot
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dimeter
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two feet
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trimeter
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three feet
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tetrameter
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four feet
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pentameter
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five feet
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hexameter
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six feet
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heptameter
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seven feet
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octameter
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eight feet
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prosody
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the study of metrical structure
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end rhyme
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"the agreement of two metrically accented syllables and their terminal consonants" (defined by Mary Kinzie)
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connotations
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the meanings a word suggests rather than specifically names or describes
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single (masculine) rhyme
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perfect rhymes
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perfect rhymes
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the correspondence between the two rhyme sounds is exact
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falling (feminine) (weak) rhyme
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the rhyme is a stressed syllable followed by one or more unstressed syllables
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Triple rhyme
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have three of the same syllables
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polysyllabic rhyme
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rhymes of more than one syllable
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double rhyme
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a rhyme with two rhyming syllables
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light verse
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poetry, usually rhymed, that treats its subject in a comic or good-natured manner
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slant rhymes
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the vowel sounds may be either similar or significantly dissimilar, and the rhymed consonants maybe similar rather than identical.
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sight (eye) rhymes
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words that look as if they should rhyme, even though they don't when we say them aloud
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Internal rhyme
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occurs within a single line of poetry
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alliteration
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the repetition of initial consonant sounds
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consonance
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the recurrence of consonant sounds
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assonance
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repetition of vowel sounds without the repetition of similar end consonants
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figurative language
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"a deviation from what speakers of a language apprehend as the ordinary, or standard, significance of words, in order to achieve some special meaning or effect" (defined by M. H. Abrams)
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style
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the author's selection and placement of words in a line, lines in a stanza, and stanzas in a poem
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Metaphor
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a figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily denotes one thing is applied to something else in order to suggest an analogy or a likeness between the two things (Your smile is a bouquet of daffodils)
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Simile
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a figure of speech that states a likeness between two unlike things (Your smile is like a bouquet of daffodils)
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tenor
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the subject to which a metaphor is applied (your smile)
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vehicle
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the metaphoric term itself (bouquet of daffodils)
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metonymy
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the name of something is substituted with the name of something closely associated with it (the White House means the president of the U.S.A.)
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synecdoche
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a kind of metonymy although the term is more often used when a part is used to describe the whole (All hands on deck means more than just the crew's hands)
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personification
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the awarding of human attributes to an abstraction or nonhuman thing
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pun
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a play on the multiple meaning of a word or its relation to other words that sound like it
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Verisimilitude
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the incongruity between the way things appear and the way they actually are
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verbal irony
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whens someone says one thing but means another
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situation irony
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the results of a situation are distinctly different than one might expect
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tone
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the style and manner of expression
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archaic language
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language that evokes an earlier time
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sonnet
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fourteen lines of rhymed iambic pentameter, with varying rhyme schemes
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Shakespearean sonnet
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its three rhyming quatrains- abs cdc efef are followed by a final couplet that rhymes gg
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Petrarchan sonnet
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italian sonnet. abbaabba cedecde
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villanelle
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five tercets and a final quatrain. Typically in iambic pentameter
