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Poetry Test
Poets and Terms
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Literature
Undergraduate 1
03/30/2015

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Alliteration
Definition
Repetition of consonant sounds; usually and the begining of a word. jazz june
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Assonance
Definition
The repetition of like vowel sounds
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Simile
Definition
Comparison between two objects using like or as
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caesura
Definition
an internal pause in a line of poetry
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metaphor
Definition
comparison between two unlike objects not using like or as
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ballad
Definition
poem meant to be sung
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blank verse
Definition
unrhymed iambic pentameter
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sonnet
Definition
fixed form poem consisting of 14 lines of iambic pentameter
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tone
Definition
the poets or personas attitude in style or expression
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Antagonist
Definition
a person or force which opposes the protagonist in the story
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apostrophe
Definition
a poetic form of direct address to a person or thing that can't answer
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elegy
Definition
a lyric poem lamenting death
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epic
Definition
a major work dealing with an important theme
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exact rhyme
Definition
rhymes in which the ending vowel and consonants are identical
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eye/sight rhyme
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words that look as though they should rhyme, but do not
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foreshadowing
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a method used to build suspense by providing hints of what is to come
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iambic
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a metrical pattern of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed symbol
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irony
Definition
result of the action is the reverse of what the author expected
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metonymy
Definition
applying the name of an object to an event that the object is closely related
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paradox
Definition
a true statement that seems to be a contradiction
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protagonist
Definition
the hero in a literary work
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symbolism
Definition
device in literature where an object represents an idea
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theme
Definition
an ingredient of a literary work which gives the work unity
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