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| show | Accentual-syllabic
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| show | Ballad
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| These feature simple language, dramatic action, and frequently, but not always, a tragic ending. | show 🗑
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| Amour propre: feelings of excessive pride. What is the kind of figure of speech? | show 🗑
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| This refers specifically to the choice and phrasing of words suitable to verse. | show 🗑
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| show | Epic
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| This narrate a story of national importance based on the life and actions of a hero. Frequently the fate of the nation depends upon the hero and his actions. Often the hero is either descended from or protected by the gods. | show 🗑
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| show | Enjambment
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| show | Enjambment
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| This is connotative and conveys the richness and complexity of language. | show 🗑
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| This uses figures of speech such as metaphor, simile, and alliteration. In contrast to literal language wherein words are taken in their primary or denotative sense. | show 🗑
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| show | Foot
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| An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable is... | show 🗑
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| show | trochee (trochaic, adj.)
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| show | dactyl (dactylic, adj.)
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| show | anapest (anapestic, adj.)
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| A foot of two successive syllables that are equally or almost equally stressed is... | show 🗑
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| A foot of two successive syllables that are equally or almost equally unstressed is... | show 🗑
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| show | Meter
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| show | Scanning or scansion
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| show | Monometer
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| show | Dimeter
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| show | Trimeter
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| show | Tetrameter
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| A metrical line of poetry consisting of five metrical units, or feet. Meter is the rhythm in poetry made by these units of sound created by accented and unaccented syllables. | show 🗑
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| show | Hexameter
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| A line of poetry consisting of seven metrical units, or feet. Meter is the rhythm in poetry made by these units of sound created by accented and unaccented syllables. | show 🗑
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| show | Octameter
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| show | Nonameter
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| A metrical line of poetry consisting of ten metrical units, or feet. Meter is the rhythm in poetry made by these units of sound created by accented and unaccented syllables. | show 🗑
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| The genre or the general type of a literary work (i.e., sonnet, novel, or short story) | show 🗑
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| The way a literary work's component parts are arranged into a shape or structure. | show 🗑
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| Lines of unrhymed verse, almost always in iambic pentameter. | show 🗑
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| show | Iambic pentameter
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| show | Blank verse
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| show | Free Verse
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| The shortest form of Japanese poetry, constructed in three lines of five, seven, and five syllables respectively. | show 🗑
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| The message of this poem usually centers on some aspect of spirituality and provokes an emotional response in the reader. | show 🗑
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| This is a five-line poem with a strict form (AABBA), originally popularized in English by Edward Lear, which intends to be witty or humorous, and is sometimes obscene with humorous intent. | show 🗑
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| show | Sonnet
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| show | The Petrarchan (Italian)Sonnet
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| A saying that makes the speaker's point quickly and concisely. | show 🗑
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| This is a one stanza poem of eight lines. Its rhyme scheme is ABaAabAB and often all lines are in iambic tetrameter: | show 🗑
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| show | Triolet
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| A type of poetry, consisting of five tercets and one quatrain, with only two rhymes. | show 🗑
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| show | Sestina
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| show | Imagery
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| The figurative language used to convey abstract ideas concretely | show 🗑
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| show | Imagery
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| show | Imagery
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| show | Internal rhyme
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| This, which occurs within a line of verse, is less common than end rhyme, which occurs at the end of a line of verse. | show 🗑
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| In contemporary usage, this refers to a moderately short (usually 12-30 lines) poem expressing one speaker's emotions and thoughts. | show 🗑
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| These poems are not limited to a specific meter or form but are almost always about emotion, frequently concerning themes of love and grief. | show 🗑
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| show | Meter
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| show | a foot (feet, plural)
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| This usually consists of one or more stressed syllables with one or more unstressed syllables. | show 🗑
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| show | scans a poem to determine what kind of foot is used and then how many feet per line are included.
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| A unit of poetic meter (or foot) that involves an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. | show 🗑
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| This make up a poem’s meter, or rhythms in poetry made by units of sound created by accented and unaccented syllables. | show 🗑
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| show | Trochaic
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| show | Anapestic (anapest)
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| show | Dactylic (dactyl)
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| is a “dramatic sketch performed by one actor”. Is an extended, uninterrupted speech or poem by a single person. | show 🗑
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| A long utterance by one person (especially one that prevents others from participating in the conversation) | show 🗑
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| show | Narrative poetry
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| show | A Narrative
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| show | Ode
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| it often has varying iambic line lengths with no fixed system of rhyme schemes and is always marked by the rich, intense expression of an elevated thought, often addressed to a praised person or object. | show 🗑
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| show | Rhyme scheme
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| show | Rhyme Royal
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| also known as perfect rhyme | show 🗑
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| show | Exact rhyme
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| show | Exact rhyme
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| A similarity of accent on the rhyming syllable(s) | show 🗑
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| A rhyme in which the sounds are similar, but not exact, as in home and come or close and lose. | show 🗑
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| show | consonance
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| A rhyme occurring in the terminating word or syllable of one line of poetry with that of another line, as opposed to internal rhyme. | show 🗑
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| show | slant rhyme
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| Days, haze is what kind of rhyme | show 🗑
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| show | Slant rhyme
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| Though, tough is what kind of rhyme | show 🗑
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| show | Eye rhyme
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| Rhymes created out of words with similar but not identical sounds. | show 🗑
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| The analysis and graphic display of a line's rhythm performed by scanning the line to determine its metrical categorization as a way of describing the rhythmical pattern of a poem. | show 🗑
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| This will also show the variations in the meter and the deviations from it, if there are any. | show 🗑
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| A type of verse distinguished primarily by the syllable count, i.e., the number of syllables in each line, rather than by the rhythmical arrangement of accents or time quantities. | show 🗑
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| This has two main parts: an octave (eight lines) with a rhyme scheme of abba abba followed by a sestet (six lines) with a rhyme scheme of cde cde (or sometimes cdc cdc). | show 🗑
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| This sonnet usually uses the octave to state or describe a problem and the sestet to resolve it. | show 🗑
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| This has three quatrains (4 lines) and a concluding couplet (two lines) with an abab cdcd efef gg rhyme scheme. | show 🗑
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| The sestets describe a problem or situation that is repeated in each sestet with some variation; the remaining couplet offers a summary, usually with a turn of thought. | show 🗑
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| This has three quatrains (4 lines) and a concluding couplet (two lines) with an offers a variant rhyme scheme of abab bcbc cdcd ee. | show 🗑
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| A grouping of verse lines often (but not always) with a common rhyme scheme, metrical pattern, or line length. | show 🗑
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| This is determined by its number of lines, number of metrical feet per line, and the meter and rhyme. | show 🗑
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| show | Couplet
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| Three lines with the same rhyme. It typically rhymes in an AAA or ABA pattern. A complete poem of just three lines. It can be either rhymed or unrhymed. There is no specific meter. This is called... | show 🗑
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| Uses the rhyme scheme a,a,a with no specific meter is called... | show 🗑
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| show | Quatrain
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| show | Sestet
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| show | Octave
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| show | Stress
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| Something that stands for something else or that represents something larger, such as a concept or idea. | show 🗑
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| Describe poetry in general | show 🗑
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| show | Verse
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| show | Verse
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