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Layne Berry ENLT Poetry/Songs English 102 cards

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  1. 1Syllabicssyllabic verse is a poetic form having a fixed or constrained number of syllables per line, while stress, quantitiy, or tone play a distinctly secondary role--or no role at all--in the verse structure
  2. 2Sonneta poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line
  3. 3Terza Rimean arrangement of triplets, especially in iambs, that rhyme aba bcb cdc, etc
  4. 4Blank verseverse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter
  5. 5Heroic coupleta pair of rhyming iambic pentameters, much used by Chaucer and the poets of the 17th and 18th centuries such as Alexander Pope
  6. 6Alexandrinehaving six iambic feet
  7. 7Ottava Rimaa form of poetry consisting of stanzas of eight lines of ten or eleven syllables, rhyming abababcc
  8. 8Free versepoetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter
  9. 9Villanellea nineteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout, consisting of five tercets and a quatrain, with the first and third lines of the opening tercet recurring alternately at the end of the other tercets and with both repeated at the close of the concluding quatrain
  10. 10Pantouma Malay verse form, imitated in French or English, consisting of quotations with an abab rhyme scheme linked by repeated lines
  11. 11Ghazala lyric poem with a fixed number of verses and a repeated rhyme, typically on the theme of love, and normally set to music
  12. 12Sestinaa poem with six stanzas of six lines and a final triplet, all stanzas having the same six words at the line-ends in six different sequences that follow a fixed pattern, and with all six words appearing in the closing three-line envoi
  13. 13Canzonea poem in which each word that appears at the end of a line of the first stanza appears again at the end of one of the lines in each of the following stanzas
  14. 14Haikua Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five, traditionally evoking images of the natural world
  15. 15Quatraina stanza of four lines, especially one having alternate rhymes
  16. 16Terceta set or group of three lines of verse rhyming together or connected by rhyme with an adjacent tercet
  17. 17Couplettwo lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit
  18. 18Sestetthe last six lines of a(n Italian) sonnet (or any six line poem)
  19. 19Octavea poem or stanza of eight lines; an octet
  20. 20Voltathe turn of thought or argument: in Petrarchan or Italian sonnets it occurs between the octave and the sestet, and in Shakespearean or English before the final couplet
  21. 21Refraina repeated line or number of lines in a poem or song, typically at the end of each verse
  22. 22Slant rhymehalf rhyme or slant rhyme, sometimes called near-rhyme or lazy-rhyme, is a type of rhyme formed by words with similar but not identical sounds. In most instances, either the vowel segments are different while the consonants are identical, or vice versa
  23. 23Iamba metrical foot consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by long (or stressed) syllable
  24. 24Trocheea foot consisting of one long or stressed syllable followed by one short or unstressed syllable
  25. 25Anapesta metrical foot consisting of two short or unstressed syllables followed by one long or stressed syllable
  26. 26Dactyla metrical foot consisting of one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables or (in Greek and Latin) one long syllable followed by two short syllables
  27. 27Spondeea foot consisting of two long (or stressed) syllables
  28. 28Cretica metrical foot containing one short or unstressed syllable between two long or stressed ones
  29. 29Amphibracha metrical foot consisting of one long or stressed syllables between two short or unstressed ones
  30. 30Dimetera line of verse consisting of two metrical feet
  31. 31Trimetera line of verse consisting of three metrical feet
  32. 32Tetrametera verse of four measures
  33. 33Pentametera line of verse consisting of five metrical feet, or (in Greek and Latin verse) of two halves each of two feet and a long syllable
  34. 34Hexametera line of verse consisting of six metrical feet, especially of six dactyls
  35. 35Heptameter ("fourteener")a line of verse consisting of seven metrical feet
  36. 36Lyricexpressing the writer's emotions, usually briefly and in stanzas or recognized forms
  37. 37Epica long poem, typically one derived from ancient oral tradition, narrating the deeds and adventures of heroic or legendary figures or the history of a nation
  38. 38Narrativein the form of or concerned with narration (i.e. plot)
  39. 39Verse Dramaverse drama is any drama written as verse to be spoken; another possible general term is poetic drama. For a very long period, verse drama was the dominant form of drama in Europe (and was also important in non-European cultures)
  40. 40Verse Novela verse novel is a type of narrative poetry in which a novel-length narrative is told through the medium of poetry rather than prose
  41. 41Dramatic monologuea poem in the form of a speech or narrative by an imagined person, in which the speaker inadvertently reveals aspects of their character while describing a particular situation or series of events
  42. 42Ballada poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas; traditional ballads are typically of unknown authorship, having been passed on orally from one generation to the next as part of the folk culture
  43. 43Odea lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner and written in varied or irregular meter
  44. 44Epigrama short poem, especially a satirical one, having a witty or ingenious ending
  45. 45Epistlea poem or other literary work in the form of a letter or series of letters
  46. 46Epigraphin literature, an epigraph is a phrase, quotation, or poem that is set at the beginning of a document or compenent; the epigraph may serve as a preface, as a summary, as a counterexample, or to link the work to a wider literary canon, either to invite comparison or to enlist a conventional context
  47. 47Satirethe use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues
  48. 48Elegya poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead
  49. 49Pastorala work of literature portraying an idealized version of country life
  50. 50Georgica poem or book dealing with agriculture or rural topics
  51. 51Hymna religious song or poem, typically of praise to God or a god
  52. 52Prayera solemn request for help or expression of thanks addressed to God or an object of worship
  53. 53Liturgya fixed set of ceremonies, words, etc., that are used during public worship in a religion
  54. 54Internal rhymea rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next
  55. 55Caesuraa break between words within a metrical foot
  56. 56Chiasmusa rhetorical or literary figure in which words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order, in the same or a modified form
  57. 57Hypotaxis/Parataxisthe subordination of one clause to another/the placing of clauses or phrases one after another, without words to indicate coordination or subordination
  58. 58Polysyndeton/Asyndetona stylistic device in which several coordinating conjunctions are used in succession in order to achieve an artistic effect/the omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence
  59. 59Alliterationthe occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words
  60. 60Consonancethe recurrence of similar sounds, especially consonants, in close proximity
  61. 61Assonancethe repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible
  62. 62Hyperbole/Litotesexaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally/ironical understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary
  63. 63Onomatopoeiathe formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named
  64. 64Personification/Prosopopoeiathe attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form/a figure of speech in which an abstract thing is personified; a figure of speech in which an imagined or absent person or thing is represented as speaking
  65. 65Periphrasisthe use of indirect and circumlocutory speech or writing
  66. 66Paralipsisthe device of giving emphasis by professing to say little or nothing about a subject
  67. 67Prolepsisthe anticipation and answering of possible objections in rhetorical speech; the representation of a thing as existing before it actually does or did so
  68. 68Apostrophean exclamatory passage in a speech or poem addressed to a person (typically one who is dead or absent) or thing (typically one that is personified)
  69. 69Ironythe expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect; as state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often amusing as a result; a literary technique, originally used in Greek tragedy, by which the full significance of a character's words or actions are clear to the audience or reader although unknown to the character
  70. 70Anadiplosisthe repetition of the last word of a preceding clause (or sentence)
  71. 71Anaphorathe use of a word referring to or replacing a word used earlier in a sentence, to avoid repetition, such as do in "I like it and so do they"; the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses
  72. 72Vernacular/Creole:the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region/a mother tongue formed from the contact of two languages through an earlier pidgin stage
  73. 73Metaphora figure of speech in which word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable
  74. 74Similea figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid
  75. 75Metonymythe substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant
  76. 76Synecdochea figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa
  77. 77Allusionan expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference
  78. 78Enjambmentthe continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza
  79. 79End-stopan end-stopped line is a poetic device in which a pause comes at the end of a syntactic unit (sentence, clause, or phase); this pause can be expressed in writing as a punctuation mark such as a colon, semi-colon, period, or full stop
  80. 80Connotationan idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning
  81. 81Denotationthe literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests
  82. 82Epistrophethe repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences
  83. 83Accentual-Syllabic Verseverse whose meter is determined by the number and alternation of its stressed and unstressed syllables, organized into feet; from line to line, the number of stressed (accents) may vary, but the total number of syllables within each line is fixed
  84. 84Genrea category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter
  85. 85Speakerthe narrative that speaks of his or her situation or feelings
  86. 86Personaa character taken on by a poet to speak in a first-person poem
  87. 87Close readingthe careful, sustained interpretation of a brief passage of a text
  88. 88Voicethe author's style, the quality that makes his or her writing unique, and which conveys the author's attitude, personality, and character
  89. 89Tonean attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience; generally conveyed through choice of words
  90. 90Registera variety of a language or a level of usage, as determined by degree of formality and choice of vocabulary, pronunciation, and syntax, according to the communicative purpose, social context, and social status of the user
  91. 91Syntaxthe arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language
  92. 92Rhythma literary device which demonstrates the long and short patterns through stressed and unstressed syllables, particularly is verse form
  93. 93Meterthe rhythm of a piece of poetry, determined by the number and length of feet in a line
  94. 94Rhymecorrespondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry
  95. 95Stanzaa group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem
  96. 96Mimesisthe representation or imitation of the real world
  97. 97Allegorya story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one
  98. 98Conceptual poetryan early twenty-first century literary movement, self-described by its practitioners as an act of "uncreative writing"; in conceptual poetry, appropriation is often used as a means to create new work, focused more on the initial concept rather than the final product of the poem
  99. 99Symbolismthe use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities
  100. 100Pathetic Fallacythe attribution of human feelings and responses to inanimate things or animals, especially in art and literature
  101. 101Intentional Fallacythe fallacy of basing an assessment of a work on the author's intention rather than on one's response to the actual work
  102. 102Heteroglossiathe presence of two or more voices or expressed viewpoints in a text or other artistic work

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ENLT Poetry/Songs Flashcards on Poetic Terms, created by Layne Berry on 01/12/2016.
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