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WGU - Poetry

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Blank Verse   written in unrhymed iambic pentameter; closest to spoken English (most of Shakespeare's plays were mostly in this verse)  
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Free Verse   no prescribed form; characterized by irregularity in length of lines & lack of a regular pattern & rhyme  
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Lyric   most common; a short poem; usually written in 1st person view; expresses an emotion or an idea or describes a scene; does not tell a story & often musical  
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Haiku   Japanese poem written in 3 lines; a total of 17 syllables in entire poem  
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Cinquain   a 5 line poem containing 22 syllables  
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Elegy   focuses on the death of a famous person or a close friend  
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Ode   longer & more complicated; serious & elaborate; full of high praise & noble feeling  
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Sonnet   form of 14 lines of iambic pentameter; traditional subjects are love or faith  
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Italian Sonnet   first 8 lines form an octave; rhyme scheme is usually "abbaabba" or "abbacdde"; in 1st part a poet usually develop the subject & builds tension  
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English or Shakespearean Sonnet   rhyme scheme is less flexible (3 quatrains & a couplet or "abab cdcd efef gg"  
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Narrative Poetry   tells a story  
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Epics   long poems; describes deed of heroes in battle or conflicts between human beings & natural & divine forces  
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Ballads   tells shorter stories about a particular person  
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Dramatic Poetry   tells stories; poet lets one or more of the story's characters act out the story  
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End Rhyme   most common; sounds following vowel sound have to be same; near duplication of sounds that take place at the end of lines  
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Eye Rhyme   similarity in spelling between words that are pronounced differently  
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Slant Rhyme   consonance on the final consonants of the words involved; when final consonant sounds are same but vowel sounds are different; help poet say things in a particular way  
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Stanza   group of lines arranged together; form a division of a poem; usually set off by a space  
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Monostich   one-line poem  
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Couplet   two lines in a poem  
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Triplet   three lines in a poem  
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Quatrain   four lines in a poem  
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Cinquain   five lines in a poem  
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Sestet   six lines in a poem  
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Septet   seven lines in a poem  
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Octave   eight lines in a poem  
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Meter   when stresses recur at fixed intervals  
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Foot   two or more syllables that together make up the smallest unit of rhythm in a poem  
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Iambic   consists of 2 syllables, the 1st of which is spoken softer than the 2nd  
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Trochaic   consists of 2 syllables, the 1st of which is spoken louder than the 2nd  
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Anapestic   consists of 3 syllables, the first 2 of which are spoken more softly than the 3rd syllable  
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Dactylic   consists of 3 syllables, the 1st of which is spoken louder than the 2nd & 3rd  
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Monometer   one foot  
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Dimeter   two feet  
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Trimeter   three feet  
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Tetrameter   four feet  
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Pentameter   five feet  
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Hexameter   six feet  
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Heptameter   seven feet  
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Octameter   eight feet  
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