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Poetry Vocab Week 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| poetry | (n.) a piece of literature written in meter; verse |
| meter | (n.) a poetic measure; the measured patter of rhythmic accents in poems |
| rhythm | (n.) a musical quality produced by the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables |
| stanza | (n.) a division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form |
| rhyme | (n.) identical sounds at the endings of words |
| near rhyme (slant rhyme) | (n.)is a rhyme that is close, but does not rhyme |
| eye-rhyme(sight rhyme) | (n.) rhymes that look alike but do not sound alike; they rhyme to the eye, not to the ear |
| internal rhyme | (n.) rhyme inside a line of a poem or a word inside a line that rhymes with a word at the end of a line |
| end rhyme | (n.) rhym at the ends of lines of poetry |
| rhyme scheme | (n.) the pattern of rhyming lines in a poem; usually referred to by using letters to indicate which lines rhyme |