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18 Cards in this Set
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ballad meter |
A four-line stanza rhymed and with four feet in lines 1 and 3 and three feet in lines 2 and 4 |
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Blank verse |
Unrhymed iambic pentameter; the meter of most Shakespeare's plays |
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Cacophony |
A harsh, unpleasant combination of sounds or tones; |
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Caesura |
A pause, usually near the middle of a line of verse, often greater than the normal pause |
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Conceit |
An ingenious and fanciful notion or conception, usually expressed through an elaborate anology, |
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didactic poem |
A poem which is intended to trash a lesson. |
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Elegy |
A sustained and formal poem seeing forth the poets meditations upon death or other solemn themes. |
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End-stopped |
A line with a pause at the end.lines that end with a period, a comma, a colon, an exclamation point, or a question mark |
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Enjambment |
The continuation of the sense and grammatical construction from one line of poetry to the next. |
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Euphony |
A style in which combinations of words pleasant to the ear predominate |
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Free verse |
Poetry which is not written in traditional meter but is still rythmical. |
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Heoric couplet |
Two end-stopped iambic parameter lines rhymed aa, bb, c.f. with the thought usually completed in a two line unit |
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Lyric poem |
Any short poem that presents a single speaker who expresses thoughts and feelings. |
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Octave |
An eight line stanza |
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Refrain |
A group if words forming a phrase or sentence and consisting of one of more lines repeated at intervals in a poem, usually at the end if a stanza. |
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Tercet |
A stanza of three lines in which each line ends with the same rhyme |
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Terza rima |
A three line stanza rhymed aba, bcb, cdc, etc. |
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Villanelle |
A nineteen-line poem divided into 5 tercets and a final quatrain. Rhymed aba, aba, aba, abaa. |
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