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Poetry
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22
English
Undergraduate 2
03/29/2007

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Term
Couplet
Definition
2 rhyming lines - fit/wit
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Enjambment
Definition
Words running together - Cummings, she being brand - Williams
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Dramatic Monologue
Definition
Hazel Tells Laverne - One person speaking to another
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Extended Metaphor/Conceit
Definition
Sets a metaphor going - she being brand
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Alliteration
Definition
Same Sounds - Descending Dew Drops
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Blank Verse
Definition
Unrhymed Iambic Pentameter (Hamlet)
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Caesura
Definition
Pause/Cease - Concrete poems, blanks
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Carpe Diem
Definition
Seize the Day - The Flea
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Stanza
Definition
Paragraph
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Symbol
Definition
Something that represents something else - lily on the brow
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Rhythm
Definition
Meter
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Scansion
Definition
Rhyming pattern, metrical pattern
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Sonnet
Definition
14 lines, iambic pentameter - Shall I compare thee to a summers day - ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
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Simile
Definition
Metaphor using like or as
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Free Verse
Definition
Open, unrhymed unmetered - The Red Wheelbarrow
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Hyperbole
Definition
Exaggeration - Sometimes for comedic effect - To his Coy mistress
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Metaphor
Definition
Compares Unlike Objects
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Meter
Definition
Rhythmic
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Onomatopoeia
Definition
Secretary Chant - Word sounds like a sound; slam, quack
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Parody
Definition
To make fun of - Hazel tells Laverne
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Personification
Definition
Make something non-human have human qualities - Trees screaming in the wind
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Rhyme
Definition
Repitition of similar sounds; happy and snappy
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