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POETRY TERMINOLOGY (hard)

Blazon

It is a form of poetry where the speaker uses metaphors, similes, and hyperbole to describe their lover's body.
ie To His Mistress

Spondee

Two long (or stressed) syllables
ie childhood, heyday

Synedoche

A figure of speech in which a part of something represents the whole.
ie all hands on deck (you want people on the deck, not just their hands)

Iambic Pentameter

A line with 5 metrical feet (two or more syllables when repeated create a rhythmic pattern) consisting of a short, unstressed syllable followed by one long stressed syllable
ie "shall I com-PARE thee TO a SUM-mer's DAY?"

Trochee

A metrical foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by one unaccented syllable
ie Carrot = "car-ROT".

Epithet

An adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned.
ie a dog is a 'mans best friend'

Conceit

Extended metaphor comparing 2 quite obviously different things
i.e. the extended metaphor of lovers being like the legs of a compass in a Valediction Forbidding Mourning

Synaethesia

Describing one kind of sensation in terms of another
ie "the silent sun"

Epizeuxis

The reuse of words in immediate succession for emphasis
ie "The horror, the horror"

Conduplicatio

Repetition of a key word over successive phrases or clauses
ie We are dregs and scum, sir: the dregs very filthy, the scum very superior

Anadiplosis

Repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause
ie "When I give, I give myself."

Spondaic meter

two consecutive syllables that are stressed almost equally
ie childhood

Trochaic meter

a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable
"Do-ble, Do-ble To-il and Trou-ble"

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