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POETRY TERMS #1 Test

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rhyme scheme
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repetition
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figurative language
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sonnet
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literary ballad
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lyric poetry
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stanza
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analogy
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iambic pentameter
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ballad
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free verse
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refrain
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Shakespearean Sonnet
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diction
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hidden alliteration
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exact rhyme
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folk ballad
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parallelism
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assonance
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paraphrase
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Poetry that expresses a speaker’s personal thoughts or feelings
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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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The repetition of similar vowel sounds, usually close together, in a group of words (free and easy; mad as a hatter)
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When alliteration occurs within words (sunshine and shadow)
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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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A summary or recapitulation of a piece of literature
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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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An extended comparison showing the similarities between two thing
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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 writer’s choice of words (particularly for clarity, effectiveness, and precision
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The pattern of rhymes in a poem
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Language that is not intended to be interpreted in a literal sense; saying one thing in terms of another
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A group of lines forming a unit in poem
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A story (a narrative poem) told in verse and usually meant to be sung
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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 story told in verse in which a known writer imitates a folk ballad
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A word, phrase, line, or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem, usually at the end of each stanza
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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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When the words at the ends of lines rhyme exactly
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The use of phrases, clauses, or sentences that are similar or complementary in structure or in meaning
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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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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 term applied to a specific kind of figurative language, such as metaphor or simile
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The main idea or the basic meaning of a literary work
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When alliteration occurs at the beginning of words (jump for joy)
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Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
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When the rhyme occurs within a line
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The repetition of sound in two or more words or phrases that usually appear close to each other in a poem
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Language that appeals to any sense or any combination of the senses
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The arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables in a pattern

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