Poetry Flashcards

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These flashcards will teach you everything that you need to know about poetry.
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Poetry A type of literature that expresses ideas, feelings or tells a story in a specific form (usually lines or stanzas)
Poet The poet is author of the poem.
Persona The persona of the poem is the "narrator" of the poem.
Form The appearance of the words on the page.
Line A group of words of words together on 1 line of the poem.
Couplet A 2 line stanza
Triplet A 3 line stanza
Quatrain A 4 line stanza
Qunitet A 5 line stanza
Sestet A 6 line stanza
Septet A 7 line stanza
Rhythmn The beat created by the sounds of the poem
Meter A pattern of stressed & unstressed syllables. Types of Meter Iambic - Unstressed, Stressed Trochaic - Stressed, Unstressed Anapaestic - Unstressed, Unstressed, Stressed
Free Verse Poetry Unlike metered poetry free verse does not have any repeating patterns and does not have rhyme.
Blank Verse Poetry Written in lines of iambic meter but does not use end rhyme.
Rhyme Words that sound alike because the share the same ending vowel.
End Rhyme A word at the end of the line rhymes with another.
Internal Rhyme A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line.
Near Rhyme An imperfect rhyme, close rhyme
Rhyme Scheme A rhyme scheme is a pattern of rhyme.
Onomatopaoeia Words that imitate the sound they are naming. E.G Buzz
Alliteration Consonant sounds repeated at the beginning of words. E.G. Candy Coated Chocolatte
Consonance The repeated consonant sounds can be anywhere in the words.
Assonance Repeated vowel sounds in a line or lines of poetry.
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