Poetry Terms Flashcards

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Subject

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Main thing/character; not always the same as the theme

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Theme

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Emotion or insight at the heart of a poem

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Means

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Rhythms and verbal wordplay, kind of language, poetic form, suggestions of other poems or music/paintings poets use, sometimes also called “elements”

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Alliteration

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Repetition of the same sounding letters; if it’s the first letter of the words and it’s a consonant, it’s called initial alliteration

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Assonance

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Repetition of vowel sounds within a phrase

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Onomatopoeia

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Word sounds like the noise it describes

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Rhyme

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Similarity of sounds

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Eye rhyme

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Words that look similar but when pronounced aloud, aren’t

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Perfect rhyme

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The sound of the two words is exactly alike

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Near/Slant Rhyme

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The sound if the two words is close but not exact

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End rhyme

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The rhyme is at the end of the line

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Masculine rhyme

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The accent on rhyming words is on a final strong syllable

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Feminine rhyme

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Accent of rhyming words is on a weak syllable

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Accent

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The strong syllable in a word

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Internal rhyme

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rhyme in the middle of line of poetry (rhymes WITH the end of the same line)

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End-stopped

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When the meaning of a line of poetry comes to a definite stop

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Enjambment

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Opposite of end-stopping; the meaning of a line doesn’t come to an end but continues to the next line

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Free verse/open form

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Poetry written without traditional verse techniques

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Closed form

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Poetry written with traditional verse technique

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Scansion

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Scanning a line of verse to determine its rhythm

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Meter

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Pattern set up by regular rhythm of words in a poem

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Foot

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One unit of the rhythmic pattern that makes up the meter

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Iambic Meter

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Weak-strong foot rhythm

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Trochaic meter

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Strong-weak foot

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Anapestic meter

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Weak-weak-strong foot

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Dactylic meter

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Strong-weak-weak foot

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Caesura

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A break in the meter within the line

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Iambic pentameter

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Meter with five units of iamb

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Trochaic octameter

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Meter with eight units of trochee

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Spondee

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Two strong accents together

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Pyrrhus

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Two weak accents together

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Rising meter

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Feet begin weak (iambic and anapestic)

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Falling meter

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Feet begin strong (Trochaic and dactylic)

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Blank verse

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Form that uses oratorical style of a long line in regular meter but without rhyme