Poetry Terms WGU
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| show | A recurring pattern of 2 or more lines of verse, poetry's equal to a paragraph
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| show | A 2 line stanza in poetry, usually rhymed which tends to have lines of equal length.
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| show | A group of 3 lines of verse, usually all ending in the same rhyme.
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| Quatrain | show 🗑
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| show | A poem or stanza of 6 lines. Usually used when speaking of the last 6 lines in an Italian sonnet.
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| show | A stanza of eight lines. First eight lines of an Italian sonnet.
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| Verse | show 🗑
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| Stress | show 🗑
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| Symbol | show 🗑
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| Free Verse | show 🗑
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| show | Poetry written in a block paragraph form.
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| show | Arranging the words of a poem to make the outline of the words represent a meaning of the poem.
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| show | Arranging poetry from unlikely places (road signs, etc), where you may delete and repeat, but not add anything.
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| Accentual-syllabic | show 🗑
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| Ballad | show 🗑
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| Conceit | show 🗑
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| show | Word choice or vocabulary. May be specific (concrete) or abstract.
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| Epic | show 🗑
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| show | Run on lines. Moving from one sentence to the next without punctuation.
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| show | Intentional departure from the normal meaning of words. Describing something by comparison.
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| show | The unit of measure in poetry made up by the pattern and order of stressed & unstressed syllables.
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| show | A verse meter made up of one primary stress per line.
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| show | A verse meter made up of two metric feet or two primary stresses per line
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| Trimeter | show 🗑
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| show | A verse meter made up of four metric feet or four primary stresses per line.
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| show | A verse meter made up of five metric feet or five primary stresses per line.
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| Hexameter | show 🗑
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| show | A verse meter made up of seven metric feet or seven primary stresses per line.
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| Octameter | show 🗑
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| Nonameter | show 🗑
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| show | A verse meter made up of ten metric feet or ten primary stresses per line.
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| Form | show 🗑
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| show | Unrhymed poetry written in iambic pentameter.
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| Haiku | show 🗑
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| show | A short,comic verse of 5 lines usually rhyming aabba, with stresses per line 3,3,2,2,3.
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| show | A very short, comic poem usually ending with a sharp turn of wit or meaning.
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| Triolet | show 🗑
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| show | 6 rhymed stanzas in which 2 lines are repeated in a prescribed pattern.
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| show | A complex verse, where 6 END words are repeated in a prescribed order through 6 stanzas and ends with 3 lines in which all 6 words appear. 39 lines total.
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| Imagery | show 🗑
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| show | Rhyme that occurs within a line of poetry, as opposed to end rhyme.
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| show | A short poem, written in first person, portraying their thoughts and feelings with a songlike immediacy and emotional force.
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| show | A recurrent, regular,rhythmic pattern in verse when stresses recur at fixed intervals.
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| show | (u /) A metrical foot in which an unaccented syllable is followed by an accented syllable.
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| show | (/uu)A metrical foot in which 1 accented syllables are followed by 2 unaccented syllable.
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| show | An extended speech by a single character where the speech has listeners.
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| show | A poem that tells a story.
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| show | A poem directed to a single purpose with a single theme. Accompanied by music.
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| show | Any recurrent pattern of rhyme within a poem. Represented by small letters for end rhyme.
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| show | A full rhyme in which the sounds following the initial letters are identical.
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| show | A rhyme in which the final consonant sounds are the same but the vowel sounds are different. Ex. litter & letter
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| Scansion | show 🗑
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| show | A pattern of a certain number of syllables to a line.
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| Italian or Petrarchan Sonnet | show 🗑
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| English or Shakespearean Sonnet | show 🗑
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| Spenserian Sonnet | show 🗑
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| show | A figure of speech where the poet attributes some characteristic of a thing to another thing closly related to it. A kind of metonymy. Places an adj next to a noun where it does not seem logical, but has expressive power. Ex: "blind mouths"
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