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Poetry and Sonnets
shakesperean, petrarchan, elements, terms, figures of speech
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English
9th Grade
07/31/2012

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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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English poet and playwright, recognized in much of the world as greatest of all dramatists
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ODE
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Dignified and elaborately structured lyric poem praising and glorifying an individual, commemorating an event or describing nature intellectually rather than emotionally.
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PASTORAL
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Poetry professing to portray the innocence of shepherd life, according to a specific literary convention.
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HAIKU
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Japanese verse form, notable for its compression and suggestiveness. It consists of three unrhymed lines of five, seven and five syllables
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METONYMY
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Use of a word a phrase for another to which it bears an important relation, as the effect for the cause
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IRONY
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Dryly humorous or lightly sarcastic mode of speech, in which words are used to convey a meaning contrary to their literal sense
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HYPERBOLE
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form of inordinate exaggeration according to which a person, or thing depicted as better or worse, larger or smaller, than is actually the case.
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SYNECDOCHE
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A figure of speech which the word, for part of something, is used to mean the whole.
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VISUAL POETRY
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A kind of poetry which uses special effects to attract attention with our eyes
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STANZA
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It is a group of poetic lines or verse
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FREE VERSE
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What do you call an unrhymed verse?
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DENOTATION
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It is the actual/literal meaning of a word which is used to develop another set of meaning or emotions.
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LANGUAGE
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It is the main tool in poetry.
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READ ALOUD
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Poems are meant to be _________________.
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LYRE
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Instrument that accompanies lyric poetry.
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FOOT METER
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Pattern or arrangement of syllables in a line of verse.
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POETIC FOOT
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Combination of accented and unaccented syllables in a poem.
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FIGURES OF SPEECH
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A device used for effect, clarity or diversification.
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COUPLET
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Any two lines working as a unit, whether they comprise a single stanza as one part of a larger stanza.
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RHYTHM
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is closely bound up with the sounds of words, as well as which the speed in which they are said.
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ALLITERATION
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It is defined as repetition of the same consonant sounds.
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RHYTHM
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An element of poetry defined as the flow of sound produced by a language.
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IMAGERY
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It refers to the sensations that language creates in mind that are often thought of as a picture because we are made to see what the author is talking about
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CONNOTATION
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Refers to the related or the allied meaning of the word which has emotional significance.
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BALLAD
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A kind of narrative poetry that tell short stories about a particular person
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EPIC
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Long poems that usually describe the deeds of heroes in battle in the origin or history of a people and are probably the oldest form of poetry.
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NARRATIVE POETRY
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A kind of poetry that tells stories and also same as the short stories.
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ELEGY
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A common lyric poem, which is a meditation of life and death and usually mourns the death of a famous person or a close friend.
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POETRY
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A type of literature in which the sound and meaning of language are combined to create ideas and feelings.
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1. MUSIC
2. IMAGERY
3. MOOD
4. LANGUAGE
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MOST important elements of POETRY
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1. NARRATIVE POETRY
2. LYRICAL POETRY
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The two main types of poetry.
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EPIGRAM
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All human beings subject to decay, and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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PERSONIFICATION
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A host of golden daffodils, beside the lake.
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ANTITHESIS
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Man proposes, God disposes
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EPIGRAM
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It is more shameful to distrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.
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METONYMY
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The palace should not scorn the cottage.
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ANTICLIMAX
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Once there was a tree and she loved a little boy.
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METAPHOR
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The city was blaketed with snow.
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APOSTROPHE
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Roll on thou dark & deep blue ocean.
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TROPE
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The tide swallowed him in a wink of an eye.
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ANTITHESIS
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It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
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SYMBOL
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In the evening of my life, I shall look at the sunset.
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LITOTES
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99% in trigonometry is not bad.
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EPIGRAM
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Little strokes fell great oaks
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