poetry vocab
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- Narrator
- the person telling the story
- Genres
- separate categories delineated by distinct style, form, and content
- Internal Rhyme
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Rhymes may also occasionally be found in the interior of
lines
- Italian Sonnet/Petrarchan Sonnet
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the original form of the sonnet is called
this
- Limerick
- Two five-line fixed forms
- Fixed forms
- are patterns that encompass a complete poem
- Blank Verse
-
consists of individual lines of iambic pentameter that do not
rhyme
- Tanka
- which adds two additional seven-syllable lines to a haiku
- Couplets
- Paired rhyming lines (aabbcc)
- Haiku
-
a Japanese import consisting of lines of five, seven, and five
syllables
- Terza Rima
-
Iambic Pentameter tercets rhyming aba bcb cdc, a pattern invented
by Dante for The Divine Comedy
- Persona
- the way that the speaker speaks, how he acts
- English Sonnet/ Shakespearean Sonnet
-
was developed in the sixteenth century
after the sonnet was imported to England and employs a different rhyme scheme
that takes into consideration the relative scarcity of rhymes in English
- Nonce Sonnets
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other names of sonnets over the years with other rhyme
schemes.
- Spenserian Sonnet
- named after Edmund Spenser, rhymes ababbcbccdcdee
- Auditor
- the person or persons being spoken to in a poem
- Epigraph
- a brief explanatory statement or quotation
- Feminine Rhyme/Double Rhyme
-
matches two syllables, one stressed and one
usually unstressed eg. Stinging, upbringing, flinging
- Neologism
- a word made up by the poet
- Ballads
-
shorter narratives with song-like qualities that often include rhyme
and repeated refrains
- Nance
- the repetition of similar vowel sounds
- Syncope
- is done for the sake of maintaining the poem's meter
- Consonance
- the repetition of similar consonant sounds
- Apostrophe
-
is used when a nonhuman, inanimate, or abstract thing is directly
addressed
- Masculine Rhyme
-
occurs between single stressed syllables eg. Fleece,
release, surcease
- Rhyme Scheme
-
a stanza of four lines ending with heaven, hell, bell, eleven
is a rhyme scheme of abba
- Lyric Poetry
-
originally comprised brief poems that were meant to be sung or
chanted to the accompaniment of a lyre
- Narrative Poetry
- poetry whose main function is to tell a story
- Elegy
- a lyric on the occasion of a death
- Epic
-
second genre of Aristotle that has been expanded to include all types
of narrative poetry
- Epigram
- a short, satirical lyric usually aimed at a specific person
- Dithyrambic Poetry
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Aristotle's third category was a type of poem that was
composed to be chanted as a religious ritual by a chorus
- Refrain
- repeated line of groups of lines
- Connotation
- the implied meaning or feel that some words have acquired
- Oral tradition
-
stories and poems that were passed down from generation to
generation in ancient societies by mouth
- Dramatic Poetry
-
today the third category is called this, and is a speech by
a single character, usually delivered to a silent auditor
- Mock-Heroic Narratives
- narratives of heroes
- Denotation
- literal meaning
- Parallel Structure
-
simply the repetition of grammatically similar phrases or
clauses
- Stanzas
- verses, whatever, you know it and that is fer sho, a block
- Archaisms
-
words that are no longer in use, and that the reader does not
understand
- Dramatic situation
- a situation that provokes emotion in the auditor
- Occasional verse
- a poem that is written about or for an important event
- Antithesis
-
is the matching of parallel units which contain contrasting
meanings
- Anaphora and Epistrophe
-
repeated words or phrases at the beginning or ends
of lines
- Diction
-
refers to the individual words in a poem and may be classified in
several ways
- Idiom
- the personal use of words that marks his poetry