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1102 Poetry Terms

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