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Flashcards by SANDRA ZAK, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by SANDRA ZAK
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| Question | Answer |
| Alliteration | Repetition of the same constant sounds at the beginning of words very close to each other |
| Allusion | When a speaker or character !takes a casual reference to a famous historical/literary figure or event |
| Ballad | Poem that tells a story. Repetition is a common feature and has usually a fast pace |
| Ballade | 8 line stanzas (rhyme ABABBCBC). Ends with a kind of PostScript Starts with an address to the poets prince |
| Balzon | Poetic listing of a loved ones qualities |
| Caesura | A break within a line of phrase. Usually indicated by a punctuation mark |
| Couplet | 2 lines with the same metre that rhymes |
| End-Stopped | When a line ends with a punctuation mark |
| Enjambment | Continuation of a sentence/clause beyond the end of a line and onto the next one |
| Extended metaphor | A metaphor that is carried beyond a single comparison and developed further |
| Foot | Unit of rythm in a metrical line |
| Free verse | Poetry that has no regular metre/rhyme scheme |
| Image patterns | Image/connected images are used more than once |
| Imagism/Imagist | Poem which is concise and uses hard, clear and concentrated imagery as a main way of creating meaning |
| Iamb | A metrical foot consisting of a short beat followed by a long beat |
| Iambic pentameter | A metre of 5 iambic feet |
| Metaphor | When something is described as something else. Involves linking something to something that is not related to it |
| Metre | A regular rhythm used to structure a line of verse |
| Octave | An 8 line verse |
| Onomatopoeia | When a word sounds like what it refers to e.g. boom |
| Ottava rima | Italian stanza made from 8, 11 syllable lines |
| Pastiche | Work which deliberately copes the style of another |
| Pastoral | Presents rural people in an idealistic way |
| Presonifiction | Something non-human described as though it was human. |
| Pre-lapsarian | Before the loss of innocence |
| Quatrain | A 4 line verse |
| Rhyming couplet | Within a poem a rhyming unit of 2 lines |
| Rhyme royal | A rhyming stanza form |
| Scheme | This is a figure of speech. Deals with things like word order and sound rather than the meaning of the word. |
| Sestet | A 6 line verse often used to describe the second section of 1 form of sonnet |
| Sonnet | 14 lines in iambic pentameter + a regular rhyme scheme. Feature a turn towards the middle of the sonnet where the author/speaker change the argument in some way. |
| Speaker | The voice that speaks the poem |
| Stanza | Group of lines (a seperate unit) that helps to break up/organises the way a poem appears on the page. |
| Symbol | It is something more than just a literar meaning. With this the significance of something is left open |
| Tercet | 3 line stanza |
| Triplet | Stanza of 3 lines in which each line rhymes |
| Troubadour | French/medieval/travelling lyric poet/minstrel from Provencal in the 11th to 13th centuries |
| Verse paragraph | Stanzas of poetry without any patterns or rhymes. Usually separated by a blank line |
| Volta | A turning point/shift in mood or argument of a sonnet |
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