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Title: poetry

Description: units 1 and 2

Total Flash Cards: 29

Created: 12/19/2007 18:51:31

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Term
alliteration
 Definition
use of smilar consants
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denotation
 Definition
the dictionary definition
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elegy
 Definition
sad, mournful
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allusion
 Definition
reference to another time, place
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consonance
 Definition
harmny
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epic
 Definition

long narrative poem
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assonance
 Definition

sound simularity
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couplet
 Definition
two lines of verso
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figurative language
 Definition
not literal, representational
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balad
 Definition
narrative, slow romantic
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dramatic monologue
 Definition
intense,sudden,striking
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foot
 Definition
unit of meter
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connotation
 Definition

implied meaning
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dramatic poetry
 Definition
sudden, marked, exciting
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free verse
 Definition
 no pattern
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haiku
 Definition
jap. poetry, 17 syl. 5  7 5
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hyperbole
 Definition
exxageration
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inversion
 Definition
reversed
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lyric poem
 Definition
musical quality
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metaphor
 Definition
not literal, used to describe
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meter
 Definition
pattern
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motif
 Definition

ryhme segment that repeats
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narrative poetry
 Definition

story
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octave
 Definition
8 lines of poetry
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onomatapiea

 Definition
written sound
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parrelism
 Definition
repetition for effect
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parody
 Definition
comic imitaion
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personification
 Definition
human traits, non human stuff
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blank verse
 Definition
no rhyme, set line length and rythm