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- Cadence
- Rhythmic flow of a sequence of sounds or words
- Simple Sentence
- Has a subject, predicate and can stand on its own
- Platitude
- A commonplace remark delivered as if it is profound truth
- Alliteration
- Repetition of a consonant sound
- Cleave
- 1) to break away from 2) to hold onto
- Passive Voice
- When the subject does not perform the action of the verb - it receives it
- Free Verse Poetry
- A poem with no form or consistent metrical pattern or rhyme-scheme
- Iambic Pentameter
- The heart beat rhythms of 5 iambic beats per line
- Meter Poem
- Pattern of accented and unaccented syllables
- Sestet
- 6 lines within a stanza
- Clause
- A group of words that has a subject and a predicate "when she ran to the store"
- Thesis
- Presents the big insight of a paper
- Rhyme Scheme
- The pattern of rhyme at the end of each line
- Predicate
- That part of a sentence or clause consisting of the verb with its objects and modifers that express what is said about the subject
- Stanza
- A group of lines within a poem
- Assonance
- Repetition of a vowel sound
- Imagist Poetry
- Originated from Ezra Pound
- Imagery
- Sparks sensory detail in the reader
- Heroic Couplet
- Rhyming couplet with iambic pentameter
- Enjambment
- Continuation of the sense in a phase beyond the end of a verse or couplet
- Allen Ginsberg
- Wrote "America" - a poem
- Schwah
- An unstressed vowel sound
- Foot
- 1 component of a line of verse
- Direct Object
- Word or words that describe the noun or pronoun that receives the action of the verb
- Anapest
- U U /
- Phrase
- A group of words: "the smelly cat"
- Scansion
- Describing the rhythms of poetry by dividing the lines into feet, marking the locations of stressed/unstressed syllables and counting syllables
- Contranym
- A word with 2+ different definitions
- Quatrain
- 4 lines within a stanza
- Universal Reach Line
- A sentence in an intro paragraph that grabs the reader's attention using a personal connection
- Dactyl
- / U U
- Iamb
- Type of foot in a line of verse made up of unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable (v')
- Embed/Imbed
- To put into
- Complex Sentence
- Has a subordinate and dominant clause
- Octive/Octet
- 8 lines within a stanza
- Split Thesis
- A thesis statement that talks about more than 1 topic
- Trochee
- / U
- Couplet
- 2 lines within a stanza
- Sonnet
- 14 lines, last 2 lines rhyme (abab efef gg)
- Arthur Rimbaud
- French imagist poet
- Personification
- Animate something that is not living
- Active Voice
- When the subject performs the action of the verb
- Dependent Clause
- Has a subject and a predicate but it is of less weight than dominant clause
- Blank Verse
- Unrhymed iambic pentameter and the stuff of most of Shakespeare's plays
- Insight
- A heightened, interesting idea
- Compound Sentence
- 2 or more equally weighted dominant clauses
- Infinitive
- The basic form of a verb (to run)
- Subject
- 1) something that is the basis of thought 2) word or words that perform or when the verb is passive, receives that action
- Spondee
- / / (oh no!)
- Onomatopoeia
- A word sounds as it means: crash
- Sophomoric
- Overconfident of knowledge though generally uninformed
- Haiku
- A short poem originating from Japan in the 16th century, usually with 5-7-5 syllables
- Plot Description
- Describes what is going on in the story, weak
- Topic Sentence
- Develops a sub-point of your thesis statement
- State of Being
- Describing what is - no action, static (The girl is hungry)
- Dominant Clause
- Same as simple sentence but is part of a larger sentence