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27 Cards in this Set
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Accentual (strong-stress) meter
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The number of stressed syllables in a line is fixed, but the number of total syllables is not.
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Syllabic meter
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The number of total syllables in a line is fixed, but the number of stressed syllables is not.
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Accentual-syllabic meter
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Both the number of stressed syllables and the number of total syllables is fixed.
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Quantitative meter
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The duration of sound of each syllable, rather than its stress, determines the meter.
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foot
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the basic rhythmic unit into which a line of verse can be divided
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Iamb
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An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable: “to day ”
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Trochee
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A stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable: “ car ry”
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Dactyl
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A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables: “ diff icult”
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Anapest
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Two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable: “it is time ”
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Spondee
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Two successive syllables with strong stresses: “stop, thief”
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Pyrrhic
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Two successive syllables with light stresses: “up to”
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Iambic pentameter
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Each line of verse has five feet (pentameter), each of which consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable (iamb).
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Blank verse
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Unrhymed iambic pentameter.
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Ballad
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Alternating tetrameter and trimeter, usually iambic and rhyming.
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Free verse
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Verse that does not conform to any fixed meter or rhyme scheme.
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Couplet
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Two successive rhymed lines that are equal in length.
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heroic couplet
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a pair of rhyming lines in iambic pentameter
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Quatrain
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A four-line stanza.
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heroic quatrain
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written in iambic pentameter with an ABAB rhyme scheme.
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Tercet
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A grouping of three lines, often bearing a single rhyme.
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Terza rima
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A system of interlaced tercets linked by common rhymes: ABA BCB CDC etc.
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end-stopped
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a break at the end of a line denoted by a comma, period, semicolon, or other punctuation mark
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enjambment
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a sentence or clause runs onto the next line without a break.
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Refrain
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A phrase or group of lines that is repeated at significant moments within a poem, usually at the end of a stanza.
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Ottava rima
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In English, an eight-line stanza with iambic pentameter and the rhyme scheme ABABABCC.
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Sestina
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Six six-line stanzas followed by a three-line stanza. The same six words are repeated at the end of lines throughout the poem in a predetermined pattern. The last word in the last line of one stanza becomes the last word of the first line in the next. All six endwords appear in the final three-line stanza.
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Villanelle
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A nineteen-line poem made up of five tercets and a final quatrain in which all nineteen lines carry one of only two rhymes. There are two refrains, alternating between the ends of each tercet and then forming the last two lines of the quatrain.
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