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12 Cards in this Set
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Alliteration
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The repetition of identical or similar consonant sounds, normally at the beginning of words.
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Assonance
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The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds.
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Ballad meter
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A four-line stanza rhymed abcd with four feet in lines one and three and three feet in lines two and four.
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Blank verse
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Unrhymed iambic pentameter.
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Dactyl
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A metrical foot of three syllables, an accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables.
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Free verse
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Poetry which is not written in tradition meter but is still rhythmical.
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Heroic couplet
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Two end-stopped iambic pentameter lines rhymed aa, bb, cc with the thought usually completed in the two-line unit.
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Hexameter
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A line Containing six feet.
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Iamb
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A two-syllable foot with an unaccented syllable.
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Onomatopoeia
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The use of words whose sound suggests their meaning.
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Pentameter
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A line containing five feet.
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Sonnet
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Normally a fourteen-line iambic pentameter poem. The conventional Italian sonnet is rhymed abba, abba, cde, cde; The English is ryhmed abab,cdcd, efef, gg.
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