Poetry Forms Flashcard

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What is an allusion?

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An implied or indirect reference to a person, event, or thing, or to a part of another text.

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What is the narrator of a poem called?

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The narrator of a poem is called the speaker.

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What is a Petrarchan sonnet also known as?

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An Italian sonnet.

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What is a sonnet?

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A poem with fourteen lines that follows a regular rhyme pattern and is usually written in iambic pentameter.

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What is a tercet?

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A three-line stanza of poetry.

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What is a ballad?

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A form of narrative verse that can be set to music, often telling a story.

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What is an elegy?

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A poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.

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What is meter in poetry?

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The rhythmic structure of verses, determined by the number and pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.

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What is a couplet?

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A pair of successive rhyming lines in a poem.

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What is a quatrain?

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A stanza of four lines, often with alternating rhymes.