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36 Cards in this Set
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iamb
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unstressed - stressed
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trochee
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stressed - unstressed
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spondee
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stressed - stressed
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pyrrhic
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unstressed - unstressed
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anapest
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unstressed - unstressed - stressed
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dactyl
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stressed - unstressed - unstressed
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"destroy"
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iamb
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de-STROY
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"unit"
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trochee
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U-nit
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"hum drum"
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spondee
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HUM DRUM
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"when the" blood creeps
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pyrrhic
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when the BLOOD CREEPS
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"intervene"
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anapest
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in-ter-VENE
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"washington"
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dactyl
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WASH-ing-ton
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monometer
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one foot
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dimeter
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two feet
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trimeter
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three feet
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tetrameter
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four feet
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pentameter
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five feet
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hexameter
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six feet
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heptameter
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seven feet
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octameter
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eight feet
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blank verse
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unrhymed iambic pentameter
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free verse
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poetry written without structuring meter, with lines of different widths, which does not rhyme in any regular way
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couplet
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a pair of rhyming lines
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tercet
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a stanza of three lines
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quatrain
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a stanza of four lines
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What are the most common rhyme schemes for quatrains?
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abab
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What do you call quatrains that alternate between tetrameter and trimeter lines?
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ballad stanza
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rime royal
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a seven-line iambic pentameter stanza
ababbcc |
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ottava rima
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an eight-line iambic pentameter stanza
abababcc |
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Spenserian
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a nine-line iambic pentameter stanza where the last line is in iambic hexameter
ababbcbcc |
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alexandrine
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a line in iambic hexameter
it's common to have a caesura between the sixth and seventh syllables |
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sonnet
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a fourteen-line iambic pentameter poem
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Petrarchan sonnet
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has an ocatve and a sestet
octave: abbaabba sestet: cdecde cdcdee |
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octave
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an eight-line division in a Petrarchan sonnet
octave precedes sestet |
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sestet
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a six-line division in a Petrarchan sonnet
octave precedes sestet |
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Shakespearean sonnet
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fourteen-line poem that has three quatrains with a rhyming couplet at the end
abab cdcd efef gg |
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