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1102 Poetry Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| lyric poetry | focuses on inward actions, insights, responses, feelings, musings, or emotions of a single character (often the speaker) |
| narrative poem | tell stories, usually of a specific episode(s) in the life of one or two primary characters |
| epic | a long narrative poem that often tells the story of a god, mythic figure or a national hero |
| personification | giving qualities of a person or animal to an inanimate object |
| rhythm | a pattern of sound |
| rhyme | the matching of final sounds in two or more words. |
| figurative language | words or expressions that carry more than their literal meaning. |
| simile | comparison of two apparently unlike things, using the word "like" or "as" |
| metaphor | relating two apparently unlike things to each other by means of a common element that isn't obvious |
| apostrophe | addressing and inanimate object, a place or an absent or imaginary person as if it were alive or present. |
| allusion | a reference to a person, place, object, or event outside the work itself. |
| imagery | words that appeal to the five senses: touch, taste, sight, hearing, and smell. |
| open form | does not follow established patterns for lines, stanzas, or rhymes. |
| closed form | the lines and stanzas must be arranged according to established patterns |
| ballad | narrative poem written in four-line, rhymed stanzas, generally involving lively, often violent action |
| Shakespearian Sonnet (English) | 14 lines 3 quatrains and a concluding couplet. rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef gg quatrains develop idea/ image closing couplet comments on it. |
| Petrarchan Sonnet (Italian) | lyric poem. 14 lines. 2 parts octave: first 8 lines: abbaabba sestet: final 6 lines: cdecde (or variation) |
| couplet | two rhyming lines of poetry |
| octave | 1st 8 lines of a petrarchan sonnet. rhymeing abbaabba develpes the idea or image |
| Quatrain | a stanza of poetry consisting of 4 lines |
| sestet | 6 lines (petrarchan) comments on the idea in the octave |
| enjambment | carrying over a sentence from one line or couplet to the next so that closely related words fall on different lines |
| alliteration | the repetition of identical initial sounds in neighboring words or syllables. |
| syntax | in poetry: the way words are arranged in lines and stanzas |
| haiku | a japanese poetic form consisting of seventeen syllables, generally divided into 3 lines. |
| structure | the pattern formed by the events and actions in a literary work |
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