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POETRY TERMS #1 Test

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iamb
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connotation
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hidden alliteration
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figure of speech
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meter
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Shakespearean Sonnet
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metaphor
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sonnet
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implied metaphor
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couplet
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allusion
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pentameter
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paraphrase
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speaker
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symbol
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rhythm
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monologue
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simile
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literary ballad
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lyric poetry
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A long, uninterrupted speech (in a narrative or drama) that is spoken in the presence of other characters
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The emotion or association that a word or phrase may arouse
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The voice in a poem which may be the poet or may be a character created by the poet.
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A reference in one work of literature to a person, place, or event in another work of literature or in history, art, or music
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Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
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A fourteen-line lyric poem usually written in rhymed iambic pentameter with a set rhyme scheme; Two types: Shakespearean sonnet (or English sonnet); Petrarchan sonnet (or Italian sonnet)
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does not directly state that one thing is another; it implies the comparison
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A summary or recapitulation of a piece of literature
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name for the number of 5 feet in a poem
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A term applied to a specific kind of figurative language, such as metaphor or simile
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The arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables in a pattern
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one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
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When alliteration occurs within words (sunshine and shadow)
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A fourteen-line lyric poem consisting of three quatrains and a couplet with the following rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef gg
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A comparison between two unlike things (with the intent of giving added meaning to one of them) WITHOUT using words of comparison
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A generally regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry
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Any object, person, place, or action that has a meaning in itself and that also stands for something larger than itself, such as a quality, an attitude, a belief, or a value
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A story told in verse in which a known writer imitates a folk ballad
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A comparison made between two dissimilar things through the use of a specific word of comparison such as like, as, than, or resembles (Dorothy is like a golden flower)
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Poetry that expresses a speaker’s personal thoughts or feelings
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When the rhyme occurs within a line
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A story (a narrative poem) told in verse and usually meant to be sung
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A figure of speech in which an animal, an object, a natural force, or an idea is given personality, or described as if it were human
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Poetry that has no fixed meter or pattern and that depends on natural speech rhythms; it may rhyme or it may not; its lines may be of different lengths
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A writer’s choice of words (particularly for clarity, effectiveness, and precision
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The return of a word, phrase, stanza form, or effect in any form of literature (as seen in alliteration, rhyme, refrain)
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The literal or “dictionary” meaning of a word
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The most common verse line in English poetry consisting of five feet of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
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When the rhyme occurs at the ends of lines
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A story told in verse that is by an unknown author and meant to be sung (A type of narrative poetry)

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