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dimeter
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two
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analogy
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comparison
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Somber
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Dark; gloomy
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TROCHEE
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stressed unstressed
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septet
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7-line stanza
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Paradox
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Self-contradictory statement
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scanning
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markings of rhythm
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howard
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loved no one
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Villanelle
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19-line lyric poem
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octave
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8 line stanazas
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prodigal
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spending money freely
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Anapest
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uu- (unstressed, unstressed, stressed)
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pentameter
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five feet per line
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Selection
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Somthing that is chosent
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assonance
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repetiontion of vowel sounds
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narrative poem
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tells a story
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Blank verse
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unrimed Iambic Pentamitor
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meter
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a poem's rhythmical pattern
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Personification
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Giving inanimate objects life-like qualities. For example: Her heart cried out; The boat groaned; The wicked wind whistled.
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Mood
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Feeling created by the poem
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Onomatopoeia
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words that imitate sounds.ex) buzz.boom.bang
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whimpers
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makes a low, whining sound
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Scansion
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figuring out meter and rhyme
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smilie
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comparsion of "like" or "as"
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couplet
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a pair of rhymed lines
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Oxymoron
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combination of contradictory or incongruous words (jumbo shrimp)
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alliteration
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repition of the initial consanant sound at the beginning of words
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Denotation
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The dictionary definition of a word
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allusion
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reference to well-known person, place, event, literary work, work of art that the poet expects the reader to recognize
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simile
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a comparison using like or as
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pastoral
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depicts country life in idyllic idealized terms
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irony
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incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs
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feminine rhyme
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rhymes before the last syllable
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figurative language
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language used for descriptive effect
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Theme
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central idea or ideas of work
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Image
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Language that appeals to the senses
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Animation
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lifelike qualities given to something not alive
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symbol
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a thing whose significance transcends its literal meaning
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Quatrain
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a four line stanza (may rhyme)
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consonance
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repetition of consonant sounds in poetry
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warrant
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a reason an assertion is true
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rime scheme
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Any fixed pattern of rimes characterizing a whole poem or its stanzas
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imagery
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word or sequence of words representing a sensory experience (visual, auditory, olfactory, tactile, and gustatory) - usually uses other forms of figurative language like metaphor, simile, personification, etc
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Stressed
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Syllables that are given a relative emphasis.
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metaphor
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a comparison that's made by saying that one thing IS another without using words to compare them
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Haiku
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Japanese word from consisting of three lines and, usually, seventeen syllables (5 in first line, 7 in second line, and 5 in third line).
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Ballad
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A narrative poem composed of quatrains (iambic tetrameter alternating with iambic trimeter) rhyming x-a-x-a.
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Extended Metaphor
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Metaphor continued throuh the whole poem
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Chant
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a simple song with limited expression and notes
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a group of lines in a poem
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Stanza
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parody
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humorous imitation of a work of literature, art or music
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Implied Metaphor
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no connecting word. implies something else. characteristics used from the being that is being compared
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metonymy
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the substitution of a word that relates to the object or person to be named, in place of the name itself
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CACOPHONY
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The use of words that combines unmelodious sounds.
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iamb
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a foot with one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
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Caesura
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A strong pause within a line verse
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clerihew
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a light verse form, usually consisting of two couplets, with lines of uneven length and irregular meter
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Falling Meter
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Poetic meters such as trochaic and dactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable
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English sonnet
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also known as the Shakepearean sonnet; organized into three quatrains and a couplet, which typically rhyme abab cdcd efef gg; more suited to English poetry because English has fewer rhyming words than Italian; more flexibility with respect to where thematic breaks can occur
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Apostrophe
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An address either to someone who is absent or something nonhuman- gives speaker opportunity to think out loud
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Sonnet
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a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme
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Euphemism
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The use of a soft indirect expression instead of one that is harsh or unpleasantly direct
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rhyme
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repetition of sounds or the ends of words
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Italian sonnet
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sonnet that rhymes abbaabba in the octet with some combination of cd and e in the sestet. Octet presents the problem, and the sestet resolves it.
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free verse
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poetry not rhyming, that follows no standard beat or pattern
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ode
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long, serious poem that is elevated in tone and style
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Foot
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A number unit of poetry. Contains at least one stress syllable and usually one or more unstressed syllable. Measurement of syllable.
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Spondee
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a metrical foot of verse consisting of two stressed syllables
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enjambment
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continuation of the sense of a verse without pause
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tone
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the speakers attitude towd his or her subject
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STRUCTURE
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the design or form of a literary work
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Stanza
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a unit of poetry containing one or more lines
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dead metaphor
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metaphors that have been part of common speech for so long that they have lost their force
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hyperbole
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a figure of speech in which emphasis is achieved by deliberate exaggeration
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couplets
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Two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, forming a unit.
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connotation
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suggestion of a meaning by a word beyond what is explicitly denotes
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sarcasm
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A form of irony meant to hurt someone. Ex: "Your such a good dancer. You've stepped on my feet three times
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Repetition
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Word or phrase used two or more times in close proximity.
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internal rhyme
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a rhyme between words in the same line
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Rhyme Scheme
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the pattern of rhymes formed by the end rhyme in a poem
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line
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a portion of a verse written in one line
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Narrative
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What type of poem is "The Cremation of Sam McGee"?
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Sound Symbolism
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repeated sound in the poem sounds like what the poem is talking about
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sonnet (Shakespearean)
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14 line poem made up of three quatrains and one couplet
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folio
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large sheet of paper. First FOlio is a collection of all Shakespeare's plays published in 1623
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Iambic Pentameter
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a line of poetry that contains five iam's(units that contain syllable followed by a stressed one, as in the word arise)
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Diction
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word choice; the use of words in a literary text
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Poetic Form
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the way a poem looks and is arranged on the page
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Marianne Moore begins "Poetry" by saying "I too, dislike it." However, she goes on to say, that in poetry there is:
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a place for the genuine
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Slant Rhyme
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a rhyme that is not exact; words that sound the same, but are not spelled the same EX: Rise, Sky; down, found; god, good
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end-stopped line
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line in poetry that ends with a period colon or semicolon
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the lake isle of innesfree
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yeats, is going early in the morning to go to the isle so he can free his mind and embrace nature
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small cabin, garden, beehive, 9 bean rows
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what words in "The Lake Isle of Inisfree" set up a contrast between the lake isle and London?
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Poetry
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pictures in music
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Verse:
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metrical language; the opposite of prose
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Heptameter:
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a metrical line containing 7 feet
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Sarcasm:
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bitter or cutting speech; speech intended by its speaker to give pain to the person addressed
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ryhme
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verse or poetry having correspondence in the terminal sounds of the lines
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Rime scheme:
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any fixed pattern of rimes characterizing a whole poem or its stanzas
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Rhythm:
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any wavelike recurrence of motion or sound
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Trochee:
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a metrical foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by one unaccented syllable
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Scansion:
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the process of measuring verse, that it, of marking accented and unaccented syllables, dividing the lines into feet, identifying the metrical pattern, and noting significant variations from that pattern
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Sonnet:
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a fixed form of 14 lines, normally iambic pentameter, with a rime scheme conforming to or approximating one of two main types- the Italian or English sonnet
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Quatrain:
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a four line stanza; a four line division of a sonnet marked off by its rime scheme
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strophe
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in poetry, a group of verses that form a distinct unit within a poem
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epic
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A long story poem, often told in verse, involving heroes and gods. These poems paint a picture of the culture, the legends, beliefs and values of a people. The Iliad and The Odyssey and Beowulf
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Triple rime:
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a rime in which the repeated accented vowel sound is in the third last syllable of the words involved; one form of feminine rime
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Petrachan sonnet:
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also known as the Petrarchan sonnet; a sonnet consisting of an octave riming abbaabba and of a sestet using any arrangement of two or three additional rimes, such as cdcdcd or cdecde
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soliloquy
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a speech from a play, often in verse, delivered by a solitary character revealing his thoughts and feelings.
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Anapestic meter
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A meter in which a majority of the feet are anapests.
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Continuous form
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That form of a poem in which the lines follow each other without formal grouping, the only breaks being dictated by units of meaning.
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