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A meter that uses a consistent number of strong speech stresses per line. The number of unstressed syllables may vary, as long as the accected syllables do not. Much popular poety, such as rap and nursery rhymes.   Accentual meter  
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A metrical foot in verse in which two unstressed syllables are followed by a stressed syllable, as in "on a boat" or "in a slump"   Anapest  
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Traditionally, a song that tells a story. Originally an oral verse form, sun or recited and transmitted from performer to performer without being written down. Compressed, dramatic, and objective in narrative style. Most consist of quatrains   Ballad  
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The most common and well0known meter of unrhymed poetry. Contains five iambic feet per line and is never rhymed   Blank verse  
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A poetic device using elaborate comparisons, such as equating a loved one with the graces and beauties of the world. Most notable used by the Italian poet Petrarch in praise of his beloved Laura   Conceit  
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A two-line stanza in poetry, usually rhymed, which tends to have lines of equal length   Couplet  
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Word choice or vocabular. Refers to the class of words that an author decides is appropriate to use in a particular work   Diction  
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A verse meter consisting of two metrical feet, or two primary stresses, per line   Dimeter  
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A metrical foot of verse in which one stressed syllable is followed by two unstressed syllables   Dactyl  
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A long narrative poem usually composed in an elevated style tracing the adventures of a legendary or mythic hero. Usually written in a consistent form and meter throughout   Epic  
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The running on of the thought from one line, couplet, or stanza to the next without a syntactical breat   Enjambment  
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A very short poem, often comic, usually ending with some sharp turn of wit or meaning   Epigram  
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A full rhyme in which the sounds following the initial letters of the words are identical in sound, as in follow and hollow, go and slow, disband and this hand   Exact rhyme  
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Rhyme that occurs at the ends of lines, rather than within them   End rhyme  
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Has a rhyme scheme organized into three quatrains with a final couplet. The poem may turn or shift in mood or tone, between any of the quatrains   English or Shakespearean sonnet  
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The unit of measurement in metrical poetry. Different meters are identified by the pattern and order of stressed and unstressed syllables   Foot  
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The means by which a literary work conveys its meaning   Form  
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Describes poetry that organizes its lines without meter. It may be rhymed but it usually is not   Free verse  
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A verse meter consisting of six metrical feet, or six primary stresses, per line   Hexameter  
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A verse meter consisting of seven metrical feet, or seven primary streeses, per line   Heptameter  
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A Japanese verse form that has three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables. Often serious and spiritual in tone, relying on imagery, and usually set in one of the four seasons   Haiku  
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The collective set of images in a poem or other literary work   Imagery  
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Rhyme that occurs within a line of poetr, as opposed to end rhyme   Internal rhyme  
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A verse meter consisting of a specific recurring number of iambic feet per line   Iambic  
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A sonnet with the following rhyme pattern for the first eight line, abba, abba; the final six lines may follow any pattern of rhymes, as long as it does not end in a couplet   Italian or Petrarchan sonnet  
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A short and usually comic verse form of five anapestic lines usually rhyming aabba. The first, second, and fifth lines traditionally have three stressed syllables each; the third and fourth have two stresses each   Limerick  
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A short peom expressing the thoughts and feelings of a single speakers. Often written in first person; has a songlike immediacy and emotional force   Lyric  
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A verse meter consisting of one metrical foot, or one primary stress, per line   Monometer  
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A recurrent, regular, rhythmic pattern in verse   Meter  
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An extended speech by a single character.   Monologue  
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A poem that tells a story. ONe of the four traditional modes pof poetry, along with lyric, dramatic, and didactic; Ballads and epics are two common forms   narrative poetry  
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A verse meter consisting of eight metrical feet, or eight primary stresses per line   Octameter  
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A lyric poem typically of elaborate or irregular metrical form and expressive of exalted or enthusiastic emotion   Ode  
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A stanza of eight lines   Octave  
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A verse meter consisting of five metrical feet, or five primary stresses, per line   Pentameter  
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A stanza consisting of four lines   Quatrain  
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Any recurrent pattern of rhyme within an individual poem or fixed form.   Rhyme scheme  
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A complex verse form in which six end words are repeated in a prescribed order through six stanzas.   Sestina  
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A traditional and widely used verse form, especially popular for love poetry. Is a fixed form of 14 lines, traditionally written in iambic pentameter, usually made up of an octave and concluding sestet   Sonnet  
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A rhyme in which the final consonant sounds are the same but the vowel sounds are different, as in letter and litter, bone and bean   Slant Rhyme  
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A practice used to describe rhythmic patterns in a poem by separating the metrical feet, counting the syllables, marking the accents, and indicating the pauses   Scansion  
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A verse form in which the poet establishes a pattern of a certain number of syllables to a line.   Syllabic verse  
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A recurring pattern of two or more lines of verse, poetry's equivalent to the paragraph in prose. The basic organizational principle of most formal poetry   Stanza  
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A poem or stanza of six lines.   Sestet  
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An emphasis or accent placed on a syllable in speech   Stress  
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A person, place, or thing in a narrative that suggests meaning beyond its literal sense.   Symbol  
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A verse meter consisting of three metrical feet, or three primary stresses, per line   Trimeter  
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A verse meter consisting of four metrical feet, or four primary stresses, per line   Tetrameter  
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A short lyric form of eight rhymed lines borrowed from the French. The two opening lines are repeated according to a set pattern. Often playful   Trolet  
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A metrical foot in which a stressed syllable is followed by an unstressed syllable as in the words summer and chorus   Trochaic  
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A group of three lines of verse, usually all ending in the same rhyme   Tercet  
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A fixed form developed by French courtly poets of the Middle Ages in imitation of Italian fold song. Consists of six rhymed stanzas in which two lines are repeated in a prescribed pattern   Villanelle  
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Refers to any single line of poetry; refers to any composition in lines of more or less regular rhythm   Verse  
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