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Poetry Terms
Poetry terms and titles for my final
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Undergraduate 2
12/16/2009

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Lyric
Definition
Subjective, reflexive poetry with regular rhyme scheme and meter.
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Narrative
Definition
A poem that tells a story
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Sonnet
Definition
14-line verse form; iambic pentameter, rhyming ababcdcdefefgg
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Blank Verse
Definition
unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter
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free verse
Definition
unrhymed lines without a regular rhythm 
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Epic
Definition
a long narrative poem about a hero
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Elegy
Definition
a poem of lament on the death of a person
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Meter
Definition
poetry's rhythm, or the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
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Meter is measured in?
Definition
units of feet 
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Scansion
Definition
the analysis of meter
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Iambic 
Definition
Unstressed/ stressed
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monometer
Definition
one foot
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dimeter
Definition
two feet
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trimeter
Definition
three feet
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tetrameter
Definition
four feet
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pentameter
Definition
five feet
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hexameter
Definition
six feet
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rhyme 
Definition
the repetition of like sounds at regular intervals
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end rhyme 
Definition
rhyme occuring at the end of the verse lines
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internal rhyme
Definition
rhyme contained within a line of a verse
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half rhyme 
Definition
imperfect, approximate rhyme
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assonance
Definition
repetition of vowel sounds in a line
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consonance
Definition
repetition of consonant sounds in a line
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alliteration
Definition
the repetition one or more sounds, usually consonants not next to each other 
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onomatopoeia 
Definition
the use of a word whose sound suggests it's meaning
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Metaphor
Definition
 a comparison of two unlike objects
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simile
Definition
a direct comparison using like or as
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conceit
Definition
an extended metaphor with powerful effect
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Personification
Definition
objects and animals are given human characteristics
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apostrophe 
Definition
addres to a person or personified object
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hyperbole
Definition
gross exaggeration, overstatement
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irony
Definition
contrast between actual meaning and actual meaning
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symbolism
Definition
the use of one object to suggest another,hidden object or idea
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imagery
Definition
use of words to represent things, actions, or ideas by sensory descripion
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paradox
Definition
statement that is self-contradictory, but underlines some truth
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oxymoron
Definition
contradictory terms that come together to express a paradox
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allusion
Definition
reference to an outside fact, event, or other source
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Emily Dickinson's songs go to what tunes?
Definition
Amazing Grace and The tune to Gilligan's Island
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Death be not proud comes from what verse
Definition
1 Corinthians 15:35-57
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the Big 6 refers to
Definition
William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, George Gordon Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley& John Keats
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William Shakespeare
Definition

-wrote in Shakespearean sonnets,

-works are permanent in time,

-written about beauty of the young man,

-<b> perminence of poetry in time <b>

-transcient and destructiveness of time.

- Writes about nature and time

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John Donne 
Definition

-Holy sonnets

-Overtly Christian

-ABBA ABBA CDDC EE

-Metaphysical--Conceits

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Emily Dickinson
Definition

-Random Capitalization

-dashes for punctuation

-death, faith, immortality, nature, love

-Rhyme scheme- abcb

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Gerard Manley Hopkins
Definition

-Makes up words

-alliteration and free verse

-sprung rhythm

-devotionals

called God- sir

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William Carlos Williams
Definition

-imagist free verse

-simple poems

-able to be read by everyone

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Langston Hughes
Definition

lots of free verse

depicts struggle of the african american

concerned with history

conversational 

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un grille-pain
Definition
a toaster
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un coussin
Definition
a cushion
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un ventilateur
Definition
a fan
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un b(a)lai
Definition
a broom
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une bouilloire (e)lectrique
Definition
an electric kettle
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un fer (a) repasser
Definition
an iron
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un radio- r(e)veil 
Definition
a radio
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un aspirateur
Definition
a vacuum 
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autre
Definition
other
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beau/belle
Definition
beautiful
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bon(ne)
Definition
good
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grand(e)
Definition
big;tall
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jeune
Definition
young
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joli(e)
Definition
pretty
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mauvais(e)
Definition
bad
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m(e)me
Definition
same
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nouveau/nouvelle
Definition
new
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petit(e)
Definition
small; short
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