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Poetry JSA 1st
VL8
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English
10th Grade
05/09/2011

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Allusion
Definition
to a statement, a person, a place, or an event from literature, history religion, mythology, politics, sports, science, or pop culture
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Alliteration
Definition
The repetition of consonant sounds,
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Assonance
Definition
repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose
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Ballad
Definition
narrative poem written in four-line stanzas, characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.
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Blank verse
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A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter
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Connotation
Definition
associations called up by a word that goes beyond its dictionary meaning
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Consonance
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The repetition at close intervals of the final consonant sounds of accented syllables or important words (for example, "book-plaque-thicker")
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Consonance
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The repetition at close intervals of the final consonant sounds of accented syllables or important words (for example, "book-plaque-thicker")
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Couplet
Definition
pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a separate stanza in a poem
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Dactyl
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A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones, as in FLUT-ter-ing or BLUE-ber-ry.
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Denotation
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The dictionary meaning of a word
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Diction
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The selection of words in a literary work
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End-stopped line
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Poetry that that has punctuation at its end
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Elegy:
Definition
A lyric poem that laments the dead.
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Epic
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long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero
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Foot:
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A metrical unit composed of stressed and unstressed syllables
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Free verse
Definition
Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme
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Haiku
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A three-line poem, Japanese in origin, narrowly conceived of as a fixed form in which the lines contain respectively five, seven, and five syllables (in American practice this requirement is frequently dispensed with
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Haiku
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A three-line poem, Japanese in origin, narrowly conceived of as a fixed form in which the lines contain respectively five, seven, and five syllables (in American practice this requirement is frequently dispensed with
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Iamb:
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An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one, as in to-DAY. See Foot
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