Elements of Poetry Unit – Flashcards
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Descriptive language poets use to create word pictures or images. Images are enhanced by sensory language, which provides details related to the senses.
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Imagery
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Words that sound like the meaning (buzz, fizz, swish, bang)
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Onomatopoeia
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A comparison of two unlike things.
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Metaphor
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A comparison using "like" or "as"
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Simile
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When an inanimate object takes on human characteristics
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Personification
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Two seemingly opposite words juxta-positioned (placed) side by side.
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Oxymoron
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A comparision which references something famous in art, literature, music, history, or culture.
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Allusion
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A contradictory or obviously untrue statement, which resolves itself upon later inspection.
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Paradox
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An incongruity or discordance that goes strikingly beyond the most simple and evident meaning of words or actions.
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Irony
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Dictionary definition of a word
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Denotation
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All the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests. In poetry, it refers to how the poet manipulates words.
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Connotation
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A change in tone, topic or form, etc.
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Shift
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Repetition of vowel sounds
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Assonance
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Repetition of consonant sounds
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Consonance
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Repetition of initial consonant sounds
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Alliteration
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Exact rhyme at the end of a phrase
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End Rhyme
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Rhyming sounds are similar but not identical
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Slant or Half rhyme
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A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry
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Meter
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A type of poetry utilizing the techniques of drama; the speaker is clearly someone other than the poet
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Dramatic poetry
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A poem that tells a story
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Narrative poetry
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A poem in which a single speaker expresses personal thoughts and feelings
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Lyric poetry
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2 line stanza
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Couplet
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3 line stanza
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Tercet
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4 line stanza
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Quatrain
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6 line stanza
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Sestet
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A group of lines in a poem
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Stanza
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Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme
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Free verse
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A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem
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Rhyme scheme
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A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor
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Hyperbole
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Repetition of sound
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Rhyme
