poetic terms

Question 1

Allegory

Answer 1

Story, poem or picture that ca be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning

Question 2

Alliteration

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Repetition of consonantal sounds

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Allusion

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indirect or passing reference, eg biblical allusion

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Ambiguity

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open to multiple interpretations

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Apostrophe

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Poem is written as an adrress to an individual

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Assonance

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Repetition of vowel sounds

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Atmosphere

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Mood/ tone of a poem

Question 8

Ballad

Answer 8

peom or song tat tells a story in short features

Question 9

Blank verse

Answer 9

verse without rhyme usually in iambic pentameter

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Colloquialism

Answer 10

Everyday language

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Conceit

Answer 11

Associated w 1600s metaphysical poets
Metaphors drawn from scientific + technical fields instead of “artsy” fields
Differs from an extended analogy - no clear relationship between things being compared

Question 12

Connotation

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Idea/ feeling associated with something

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Couplet

Answer 13

2 rhyming lines of verse

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Elegy

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Poem written in lament or memory of someone

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Enjambment

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Continuation of sentence without a pause being the end of a line, couplet or stanza

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Forshadowing

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Warning or indication of what will happen later

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Form

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Structure of a poem

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Free verse

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Poem without pattern or meter

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Genre

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Category of poem

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Hyperbole

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Exaggeration

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Iambic pentamenter

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Line of poetry with 10 beats of alternating stressed and unstressed sylabbles

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Imagery

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Picture painted with words

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Interlocuter

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Person who takes part in a dialogue or conversation

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Internal rhyme

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Rhyme within a line of poetry instead of at the end

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Irony

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Expressing meaning by saying the opposite for humourous or emphatic effect

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Juxtaposition

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Words or phrases placed close together with contrasting effects

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Keen

Answer 27

Irish lamen from Caoin

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Lyric

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poem that expresses poets emotions beautifully

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Metaphor

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comparison without like as or than

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metre

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rhythm

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monologue

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speech by one person

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neologism

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newly coined word or expression

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octet

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1st 8 lines of a sonnet

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ode

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a lyric poem in address of a particular subject

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onomatopoeia

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word sounds like what it is

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Ottava rima

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8 line poem or stanza with abababcc structure

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oxymoron

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figure of speech with contradictory terms in conjunction with eachother

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pastoral

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invokes thoughts of country life

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pathetic fallacy

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attribution of human feeling to inanimate things eg stormy weather is anger

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pun

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play on words

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personification

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giving non human things human traits

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quatrain

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4 line abab stanza

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repetition

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repeating a word for emphasis

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satire

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use of humour or irony to expose + criticise stupidity or evil

Question 45

sensuous

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appeals to senses

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sestet

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last 6 lines of a poem

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sibilance

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hissing sound of repeated s

Question 48

sonnet

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poen of 14 lines iwth specific pattern

Question 49

style

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how its writen

Question 50

trecet

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set of 3 kines of verse that rhyme or are connected by rhyme in an adjecent triplet

Question 51

Terza rima

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3 line stanzas in aba bcb cdc

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theme

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main message

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tone

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Attitude

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vilanelle

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poem of 19 lines with only 2 rhymes throughut with some lines repeated

Question 55

volta

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turn or change in tone