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A type of poetry or verse which was basically used in dance songs in the ancient France. a conspicuous element is the recurrence of certain lines at regular intervals and can also be in interrogative form with appropriate answers to every question asked.
They seldom offer a direct message about a certain event, character or situation, so it is left to the audience to deduce the moral of the story from the whole narration. |
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| The name given to the elements in a poem that spark off the senses. Although a synonym for "picture", this does not need to be only visual; any of the five senses (sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell) can respond to what a poet writes. |
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| A comparison that claims the things being compared are similar, rather than the metaphor's claim that the two things are the same. This usually appears as "A is like B", or "C is as friendly as a D". |
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| Penelope Shuttle's description, in 'Thief', of "the forest like a perfumed, pampered room wet with solitude" is an example of what type of poetry? |
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| A term used for words in a rhyming pattern that have some kind of sound correspondence but are not perfect rhymes. |
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| send and when, sun and plum, day and made, fellow and hollow are examples of what type of poetry term? |
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| This is used to signify ideas and qualities by giving them symbolic meanings that are different from their literal sense. |
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| These do shift their meanings depending on the context they are used in. “A chain”, for example, may stand for “union” as well as “imprisonment”. Thus, the meaning of an object or an action is understood by when, where and how it is used. It also depends on who reads them. What poetry term is this? |
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| The action of someone smiling at you may stand as a ______ of the feeling of affection which that person has for you. |
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| This poetry term comes from the Italian word “sonetto” which means “little song” and has come to be known generally as a poem containing fourteen lines of iambic pentameter. |
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| ____________ have been classified into groups based on the ryhme scheme. |
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| __________ ______________ wrote his sonnets to rhyme: abab cdcd efef gg. Sonnets which follow this rhyme scheme are called ______________ Sonnets. |
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| __________ also generally contain a volta, or turn. This is a subtle device used to distract the reader from the monotonous beat of the iambic pentameter |
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| A device in a poem that refers to the emotions evoked by the poem's language. When poets use words to specifically inspire feelings of sadness, anger, joy or other emotions, those words contribute to the poem's __________. |
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| a figure of speech in which a thing, an idea or an animal is given human attributes. The non-human objects are portrayed in such a way that we feel they have the ability to act like human beings. |
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| For example, when we say, “The sky weeps” we are giving the sky the ability to cry, which is a human quality. What poetic device does this demonstrate? |
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| A brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance. It does not describe in detail the person or thing to which it refers. It is just a passing comment and the writer expects the reader to possess enough knowledge to spot this and grasp its importance in a text. |
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| For instance, you make a literary __________ the moment you say, “I do not approve of this quixotic idea,” Quixotic means stupid and impractical derived from Cervantes’s “Don Quixote”, a story of a foolish knight and his misadventures. |
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| a literary device that can be defined as poetry that is free from limitations of regular meter or rhythm and does not rhyme with fixed forms. Such poems are without rhythms and rhyme schemes; do not follow regular rhyme scheme rules and still provide artistic expression. |
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| What kind of poems have no regular meter and rhythm? |
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| These poems do not follow a proper rhyme scheme as such and these poems do not have any set rules. |
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| This type of poem is based on normal pauses and natural rhythmical phrases as compared to the artificial constraints of normal poetry. |
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| This poem has three lines, where the first and last lines have five moras, while the middle line has seven. The pattern in Japanese genre is 5-7-5. |
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| The mora is another name of a sound unit, which is like a syllable, but it is different from a syllable. As the moras cannot be translated into English, they are modified and syllables are used instead. The lines of such poems rarely rhyme with each other. What kind of poem? |
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| A _____ poem does not rhyme and contains 17 syllables in total. |
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This type of poem contains three lines
and has five moras (syllables) in the first line, seven in the second and five in the last line. |
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| The name given to a line of verse that consists of five iambs (an iamb being one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed, such as "before")and has been a fundamental building block of poetry in English, used in many poems by many poets from the English Renaissance to the present day. |
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| This takes place when two or more words close to one another repeat the same vowel sound but start with different consonant sounds. |
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The following is an example of __________:
“Men sell the wedding bells.” |
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This is an example of ____________:
"The engineer held the steering to steer the vehicle." |
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| This means a pair of rhyming words where the ending sounds use exactly the same phonemes rather than any sort of slant rhyme. The proper pronunciation of clothes does not have any exact rhymes, for instance, but it has slant rhymes such as close, froze, or grows. |
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Examples of _________ ___________ are:
close, froze, grows |
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| This is a literary device which demonstrates the long and short patterns through stressed and unstressed syllables particularly in verse form. |
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| A unit or foot of poetry that consists of a lightly stressed syllable followed by a heavily stressed syllable. |
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| Some words in English naturally form ________, such as behold, restore, amuse, arise, awake, return |
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| This term means “letters of alphabet”. It is a stylistic device in which a number of words, having the same first consonant sound, occur close together in a series. |
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An example of _____________ is below:
"But a better butter makes a batter better." |
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| In written composition, is an attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience. This is generally conveyed through the choice of words or the viewpoint of a writer on a particular subject. |
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| The manner in which a writer approaches this theme and subject is the _____. The _____ can be formal, informal, serious, comic, sarcastic, sad, and cheerful or it may be any other existing attitudes. |
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| This is a form of language that has no formal metrical structure. It applies a natural flow of speech, and ordinary grammatical structure rather than rhythmic structure, such as in the case of traditional poetry. Normal every day speech is spoken in this and most people think and write in this form. |
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| This is defined as a word, which imitates the natural sounds of a thing. It creates a sound effect that mimics the thing described, making the description more expressive and interesting. |
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Below is an example of _____________
"The buzzing bee flew away." |
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Below is an example of _____________
"The rustling leaves kept me awake." |
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| The different sounds of animals are also considered as examples of ________________. |
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The following are examples of ___________:
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