Poetry Terms WGU
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| Stanza | show 🗑
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| show | A 2 line stanza in poetry, usually rhymed which tends to have lines of equal length.
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| Tercet | show 🗑
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| Quatrain | show 🗑
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| Sestet | show 🗑
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| Octave | show 🗑
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| Verse | show 🗑
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| show | An emphasis or accent placed on a syllable in speech.
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| show | A person, place, or thing in a narrative that has multiple meanings beyond it's literal sense.
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| show | A type of poetry written NOT using strict meter or rhyme.
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| show | Poetry written in a block paragraph form.
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| show | Arranging the words of a poem to make the outline of the words represent a meaning of the poem.
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| show | Arranging poetry from unlikely places (road signs, etc), where you may delete and repeat, but not add anything.
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| show | A meter that uses a consistent # of stresses per line. Unstressed syllables may vary, but stressed syllables do not.
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| Ballad | show 🗑
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| Conceit | show 🗑
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| show | Word choice or vocabulary. May be specific (concrete) or abstract.
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| show | A long narrative poem depicting the adventures of a legendary or mythic hero.
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| Enjambment | show 🗑
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| Figurative Language | show 🗑
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| show | The unit of measure in poetry made up by the pattern and order of stressed & unstressed syllables.
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| Monometer | show 🗑
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| Dimeter | show 🗑
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| show | A verse meter made up of three metric feet or three primary stresses per line.
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| Tetrameter | show 🗑
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| show | A verse meter made up of five metric feet or five primary stresses per line.
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| show | A verse meter made up of six metric feet or six primary stresses per line.
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| show | A verse meter made up of seven metric feet or seven primary stresses per line.
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| show | A verse meter made up of eight metric feet or eight primary stresses per line.
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| show | A verse meter made up of nine metric feet or nine primary stresses per line.
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| show | A verse meter made up of ten metric feet or ten primary stresses per line.
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| show | The way in which an author expresses the meaning & content of their work.
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| show | Unrhymed poetry written in iambic pentameter.
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| show | A Japanese verse form with 3 unrhymed lines of 5,7,5 syllables. Usually set in nature.
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| Limerick | show 🗑
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| Epigram | show 🗑
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| show | A short lyric poem of 8 rhymed lines. The 2 opening lines are repeated according to a set pattern.
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| Villanelle | show 🗑
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| show | A complex verse, where 6 END words are repeated in a prescribed order through 6 stanzas and ends with 3 lines in which all 6 words appear. 39 lines total.
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| Imagery | show 🗑
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| Internal Rhyme | show 🗑
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| show | A short poem, written in first person, portraying their thoughts and feelings with a songlike immediacy and emotional force.
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| show | A recurrent, regular,rhythmic pattern in verse when stresses recur at fixed intervals.
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| Iambic | show 🗑
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| Trochaic | show 🗑
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| show | (uu/)A metrical foot in which 2 unaccented syllables are followed by 1 accented syllable.
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| show | (/uu)A metrical foot in which 1 accented syllables are followed by 2 unaccented syllable.
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| show | An extended speech by a single character where the speech has listeners.
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| Narrative Poetry | show 🗑
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| show | A poem directed to a single purpose with a single theme. Accompanied by music.
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| show | Any recurrent pattern of rhyme within a poem. Represented by small letters for end rhyme.
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| Exact Rhyme | show 🗑
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| Slant Rhyme | show 🗑
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| show | Rhyme that occurs at the ends of lines, rather than within them.
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| Scansion | show 🗑
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| show | A pattern of a certain number of syllables to a line.
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| show | Love poetry 14 lines, broken into an Octave (abba, abba) and a Sestet with any rhyme scheme as long as it does not end in a couplet. Turns focus after the octave.
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| show | Love poetry 14 lines, broken into 3 Quatrains and a Couplet. abab cdcd efef gg . Turns after the quatrains.
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| show | Love poetry 14 lines,3 Quatrains and a Couplet.abab bcbc cdcd ee. Turns after the quatrains.
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