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Poetry Test
Poetry Test
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English
12th Grade
03/15/2011

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Mirrors
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Sylvia Plath
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Mending Wall
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Robert Frost
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Mother To Son
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Langston Hughes
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Ballad of Birmingham
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Dudley Randall
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How Do I Love Thee
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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The Flea
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John Donne
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When I Was One and Twenty
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A.E. Housman
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These Winter Sundays
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Robert Hayden
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When I Consider How My Light Is Spent
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John Milton
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Ozymandias
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Percy Shelley
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The World Is Too Much With Us
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William Woodsworth
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We Real Cool
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Gwendolyn Brooks
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Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
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Dylan Thomas
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We Grow Accustomed To The Dark
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Emily Dickenson
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My Number
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Billy Collins
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a poem that tells a story
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Narrative Poem
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type of poem characterized by the expression of feeling
Definition
Lyric Poem
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long narrative that records the adventures of a hero
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Epic
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narrative written in four-line stanzas, characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style
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Ballad
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lyric poem that laments the dead
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Elegy
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long, stately poem in stanzas of varied length, meter, and form
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Ode
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14 lined poem that expresses emotion oran articulation of idea according to Petrarchan or Shakespearean.
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Sonnet
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matching of final vowel or consonants
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Rhyme
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repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose
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Assonance
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repetition of a consonant sounds, especially at the beginning of a word
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Alliteration
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recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse
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rhythm
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measured pattern of rhythmic accents in poems
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meter
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type of poem in which a speaker addresses a silent listener
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dramatic monologue
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omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable
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elision
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concrete representation of a sense impression, a feeling, or idea
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image
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part is substituted for a whole
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synechdoche
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closely related term is substituted for an object or idea
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metonymy
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symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply secondary meaning
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allegory
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unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one
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foot
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a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables
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iamb
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he continuation of a syntactic unit from one line of verse into the next line without a pause
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enjambment
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regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme, line length, and metrical pattern.
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closed form
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does not conform to established patterns of meter, rhyme, and stanza.
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open form
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humorous or satirical mimicry
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parody
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