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Sean Q English 220 Midterm 1
Poetic Terms and Structures
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English
Undergraduate 2
03/08/2011

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Allusion
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makes reference to a place, event, literary work, myth or work of art
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Alternating Rhyme
Definition
ABAB
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Caesura
Definition
Strong Pause comes in the middle line of poetry
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Confessional Poetry
Definition
describes intimate information about details of the poets personal life, such as in poems about mental illness, sexuality, and depondence.
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Elegy
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mournful poem; a lament for the dead
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Enclosed Rhyme
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ABBA
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End-stopped
Definition
end of line coincides with the end of the sentence
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Enjambment
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run-on lines; no punctuation at the end of a line
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(metric) foot
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a two-or-three syllable "beat" in a line of verse (IAMB i.e.)
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Free Verse
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Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme. Modern and contemporary poets of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries often use free verse
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Iamb
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A type of metric foot with an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one, as in the word "to-DAY"
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Imagery
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a collection of images; details and descriptions in order to create a sensory experience for the reader
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Hyperbole
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deliberate exxageration used for effect
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Metaphor
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a comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as like or as
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Meter
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the measured pattern of rhythmic accents in poems
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Narrative poem
Definition
a poem that tells a story
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Point of View
Definition
the angle of vision from which a story/poem is narrated
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Poetry of Witness
Definition
falls between the "personal" and the "political," usually spoken from the viewpoint of the oppressed.
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Rhyme Scheme
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the pattern of rhyme between lines of a poem or song
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Rhyming couplet
Definition
two lines that end-rhyme with each other.
AABB
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Simile
Definition
a figure of speech involving a comparison between unlike things using like, as, or as though
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Sonnet
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a fourteen-line poem in iambic petameter; the early part of the poem sets up a conflict which is resolved in the end
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Shakespearean or English Sonnet
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an eight-line octave and a six-line sestet, rhyming
ABBAABBA
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Symbol
Definition
an object or action in a literary work that means more than itself
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Villanelle
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one of the strictest forms of poetry; 19 line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition-- 5 tercets and a concluding quatrain
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Volta
Definition
a "turn" or shift in the poem, usually a sonnet. It is most frequently encountered at the end of the octave, or the end of the twelfth line; it sets up the resolution of the "conflict" that was set up in the early part of the sonnet
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Couplet
Definition
two line stanza
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Tercet
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3 line stanza
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Quatrain
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4 line stanza
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Cinquain
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5 line stanza (rare)
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Sestet
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6 line stanza
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Septet
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7 line stanza
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Octave
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8 line stanza
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Confessional Poets
Definition
Sharron Olds and Sylvia Plath
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Auden Group
Definition
Stephen Spender
Louis MacNiece
Cecil Day Louis
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