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The bolded poetry terms in the textbook

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Term
Definition
imagery   show
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show the recurrence of regular units of stressed/unstressed syllables  
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show occurs when one syllable is emphasized more than another  
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alliteration   show
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assonance   show
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show -expressions that use words to achieve effects beyond the power of ordinary language -includes metaphors and similies  
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sonnet   show
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show poet mourns the death of a specific person  
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epigram   show
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show analysis of patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables within a line  
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foot   show
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show progress from unstressed to stressed syllables (iamb)  
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show progress from stressed to unstressed syllables (trochee) -ex: London Bridge is falling down  
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caesura (see-zurah)   show
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cacophony   show
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show an effect pleasing to the ear  
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show when the sound of the word echoes its meaning  
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show to analyze a poem (condensed meaning, images, foregrounded sound, etc.)  
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show two rhymed lines of iambic pentameter with a weak pause after the first line and a strong pause after the second  
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show -most widely used -4 line stanza with lines of similar length and a set rhyme scheme  
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show brief reference to a person, place, or event that readers are expected to recognize  
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show word choice of an author, which determines the level of language used in a piece of literature  
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show varying line length, dispensing with stanzaic divisions, breaking lines in unexpected places  
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show group of literary works generally acknowledged by critics and teachers to be the best and most significant to have emerged from our history  
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show form of poetry, usually brief and intense, that expresses a poet's subjective response to the world  
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metaphor   show
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show a comparison used throughout a work  
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show a six line unit with a rhyme scheme of CDC/CDC  
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show 14 lines divided into 3 quatrains and a concluding couplet written in iambic pentameter -rhyme scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GG  
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simile   show
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extended simile   show
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show person, object, action, or idea whose meaning transcends its literal or denotative sense in a complex way  
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iamb   show
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show two syllables, stressed follow by unstressed (London Bridge is falling down)  
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pentameter   show
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iambic pentameter   show
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