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• Chic Literature


  Genre fiction that addresses issues of modern womanhood
• MAGIC REALISM/ ESCAPISM


  Characterized by the inclusion of fantastic or mythical elements into seemingly realistic fiction
• Feminist Literary Criticism


  Literary analysis that arises from the viewpoint of feminism, feminist theory, and/or feminist politics.
• POETRY


  A type of literature that expresses ideas, feelings, or tells a story in a specific form
• Left Brain

  ○ Logic

  ○ Reality

  ○ Literal
• Right Brain

  ○ Creative

  ○ Emotions

  ○ Figurative
• Traditional


  ○ Follows specific rules

  ○ Regular pattern of rhyme, rhythm, meter
• Organic


  ○ No Rules

  ○ No regular pattern
• Forms of Traditional

  Epic, ode, ballad, sonnet, haiku, limerick
• Forms of Organic

  Free verse, concrete poetry
• Form


  Appearance of the words on the page
• LINE


  A group of words together on one

  line of the poem
• STANZA


  A group of lines arranged together
• RHYTHM


  The beat created by the sounds of the words in a poem

  ○ Created by meter, rhyme, alliteration and refrain.
• Meter


  A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
• End Rhyme


  A word at the end of

  one line rhymes with a word at the

  end of another line
• Internal Rhyme


  A word inside a

  line rhymes with another word on

  the same line;
• Near Rhyme


  rhyme, share EITHER

  the same vowel or consonant sound

  BUT NOT BOTH
• Rhyme Scheme

  Pattern of rhyme
• Onomatopoeia


  Sounds that imitate another sound
• Alliteration


  Consonant sounds repeated at the

  beginnings of words
• Assonance


  Repeated VOWEL sounds in a line or

  lines of poetry.
• Refrain


  Entire stanza is repeated throughout

  a poem
• Poetry


  Writing chosen and arranged to

  create a certain emotional response

  through meaning, sound, and

  rhythm
• Ballad


  Narrative, rhyming poem or song that's Characterized by short stanzas and simple words, telling a heroic and/or tragic story
• Blank verse


  a poem that does not rhyme
• Cinquain


  5 line, unrhymed poem with pattern 2, 4, 6, 8, 2
• Sonnet


  Most sonnets are in a fixed form of 14 lines of 10 syllables, usually written in iambic pentameter. Usually are about love and/or philosophy
• Lyric Poetry


  expresses some emotion, tend to express personal feelings
• Limerick


  A FUNNY 5-line poem, written with one couplet and one triplet
• Free verse


  Unrhymed poetry
• Haiku


  Japanese form of poetry, pattern of 5, 7, 5
• Acrostic Poem


  A poem where the first letter of each line spells a word that can be read vertically
• Diamante 


  A poems about opposites, resembles a diamond
• SHAPE POEMS


  Shaped like the thing it describes