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1) An old, jaded, overused phrase or sentence; always to be avoided in fresh writing
2) A line of poetry consisting of five metrical feet
3) A type of metaphor that gives animals or inanimate objects human qualities
4) The basic unit of rhythmic measurement in a line of poetry
5) The pattern of rhymes in a poem or stanza, usually indicated by letters of the alphabet
6) The literal meaning of something
7) A narrative poem that presents a single dramatic episode that is often tragic or violent. It often will tell the stories of outlaws or rebels
like Robin Hood or Jesse James
8) A paragraph is to an essay as a _____________ is to a poem
9) The use of words whose sound imitates the sound of the thing being named. The buzz of the bee stopped short as he dropped into the
pond. Ker-plunck.
10) A long narrative poem, in lofty style, set in a remote time and place, and dealing with heroic characters and deeds important in the
legends and history of a nation or race.
11) The incongruity, or difference, between (what is) and appearance (what seems to be). A fire station that burns down.
12) A type of invocation, calling out to an imaginary, dead or absent person, place or thing. “Oh Mabie, thou art perfection!”
13) A poem of sorrow or morning for the dead.
14) Elizabeth Bishop’s “One Art” is this type of poem. It has a rigid, repeating structure and often deals with loss
15) Unrhymed iambic pentameter
16) The perspective from which a story or poem is told
17) Also called run-on lines. When the grammar or sense of a line does not end with the line but carries on to the next line.
18) That which represents itself and something else
19) A metrical foot that includes an accented syllable followed by an unaccented syllable
20) The first eight lines of an Italian Sonnet
21) The close repetition of identical consonant sounds before and after differing vowel sounds, e.g., hurt my heart
22) A pause within a line of poetry
23) The creation of mental pictures using words
24) Also called near rhyme, it is an approximate rhyme, devised by substituting assonance and consonance for true rhyme.
25) Exaggeration for effect
26) The close repetition of middle vowel sounds between different consonant sounds: bird turd
27) A metrical foot consisting of one accented followed by two unaccented syllables.
28) A metaphor that includes two incompatible images in a single expression, e.g., The early bird gets the worm, so get back up on that horse
when you fall off.
29) Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme and that are written to the same meter.
30) A line of poetry consisting of two metrical feet
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1) The meaning beyond the literal
8) the process of analyzing the meter in lines of poetry by counting and marking the accented and unaccented syllables, dividing the lines
into metrical feet, and showing the major pauses within the lines
31) a line of poetry in which the grammatical structure, the sense, and the meter are completed at the end of each line.
32) A figure of speech in which a part of something stands for the whole thing
33) A universal symbol or universal, symbolic action that is found across cultures and peoples. It is a pattern or model of an action (e.g.,
lamenting the dead), a character type (rebellious youth) or an image (paradise as a garden) that recurs consistently enough in life and
literature to be considered a universal.
34) A line of poetry consisting of four metrical feet
35) A long and elaborate lyric poem, usually dignified or exalted in tone and often written to praise someone or something or to mark an
important occasion, e.g., John Keats’ “________ to a Grecian Urn”
36) A short lyric poem of lamentation; a funeral song
37) The overall feeling of a piece—the ambiance that it creates
38) The fixed (or nearly fixed) pattern of accented and unaccented syllables in the lines of a poem that produces its pervasive rhythm.
39) The attitude of the speaker or the author
40) A word, symbol, theme, idea, image, etc. that recurs throughout a text or within a body of works
41) Another way to refer to grammar
42) A fourteen-line poem that includes three quatrains and one couplet. The rhyme scheme is ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
43) The degree of objectivity or detachment that one experiences with a text. Some believe that in order to analyze a text well, one must
have a certain degree of _______________ from the text.
44) A stanza or poem of four lines which may be rhymed or unrhymed
45) Literally “good sound.” A succession of sweetly melodious sounds
46) A usually short, personal poem expressing the poet’s emotions and thoughts rather than telling a story.
47) A figure of speech, an implied analogy in which one thing is imaginatively compared to or identified with another dissimilar thing.
48) A metrical foot consisting of one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
49) A six line poem or stanza
50) A short poem about country life; an idealized story of happy innocence
51) A fourteen line poem consisting of an octave and a sestet. The octave usually develops an issue or a problem. The sestet usually resolves
the issue or problem.