Poetry Literary Terms Quiz 2--English 2024

a word capturing or approximating the sound of what it describes; buzz is a good example

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a figure of speech that involves treating something nonhuman, such as an abstraction, as if it were a person by endowing it with humanlike qualities, as in "Death entered the room."

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divided into six stanzas— five tercets (three-line stanzas) and one quatrain (four-line stanza). The first and third lines of the first tercet rhyme with each other, and this rhyme is repeated through each of the next four tercets and in the last two lines of the concluding quatrain. The ___________ is also known for its repetition of select lines. An example is Dylan Thomas’s “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night.”

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originally, a poem meant to be sung to the accompaniment of a lyre; now, any relatively short poem in which the speaker expresses his or her thoughts and feelings in the first person rather than recounting a narrative or portraying a dramatic situation

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a poem structured so as to present a scene or series of scenes, as in a work of drama

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the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds through a sequence of words--for example, "While I nodded nearly napping" in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven."

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a fixed verse form consisting of fourteen lines usually in iambic pentameter

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this type of sonnet instead consists of 3 quatrains (4-line units) and a couplet and often rhymes

abab cdcd efef gg

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Consists of eight rhyme-linked lines (an octave) plus six rhyme-linked lines (a sestet), often with either an abbaabba cdecde or abbacddc defdef rhyme scheme. This type of sonnet is also called the Petrarchan sonnet in honor of the Italian poet Petrarch (1304-74).

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CCSS.RL.8.4

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a group of sonnets thematically unified to create a long work, although generally, unlike the stanza, each sonnet so connected can also be read as a meaningful separate unit

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