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54 Cards in this Set
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lyric
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subjective, reflective poetry with regular rhyme scheme with own emotion and feeling
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narrative
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nondramatic, objective verse with regular rhyme scheme which relates a story of narrative without emotion
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sonnet
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a 14-line verse
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Shakespearean (English) sonnet
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3 quatrains and concluding couplet in iambic pentameter (abab cdcd efef gg OR abba cddc effe gg)
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Spenserian sonnet
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abab bcbc cdcd ee
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ode
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elaborate lyric verse with a serious theme
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blank verse
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unrhymed lines with iambic pentameter
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free verse
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unrhymed lines without regular rhythm
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epic
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a long, serious narrative poem which gives the account of a hero
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dramatic monologue
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lyric poem which reveals a dramatic moment and reveals the authors character
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elegy
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a poem of lament, about a death
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ballad
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a simple narrative verse which is to be sung or recited
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idyll
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lyric poetry describing life of a shepard
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villanelle
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a French verse form that is simple and spoontaneous with five tercets and a final quatrain, aba aba aba aba aba abaa
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light verse
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poetry written to entertain which can have a serious side, such as parody or satire
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haiku
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a Japanese verse in 3 lines of 5, 7, 5 syllables depicting a delicate image
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limerick
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humorous verse in five anapestic lines (aabba)
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meter
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poetry's rhythm
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feet
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the measurement for meter
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iambic
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u /
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trochaic
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/ u
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anapestic
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u u /
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dactyllic
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/ u u
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spondaic
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/ /
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pyrrhic
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u u
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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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octometer
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eight feet
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scansion
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the analysis of elements to determine meter
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stanzas
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the "paragraphs" of poetry
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2-lined stanza
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couplet
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tercet
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3-lined stanza
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quatrain
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4-lined stanza
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cinquain
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5-lined stanza
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caesura
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a pause in the meter or rhythm of a line
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enjambement
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a run-on line, continuing into the next with puncuation
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rime
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old spelling of rhyme (repetition of like sounds at regular intervals)
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end rhyme
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rhyme at the ends of verse lines
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internal rhyme
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rhymes within a line of verse
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rhyme scheme
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the pattern of rhymes with a unit of verse
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masculine rhyme
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rhyme in which ONLY the last syllable of the rhyming words sounds similar
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feminine rhyme
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rhyme in which 2 consecutive syllables sounds similar, a double rhyme
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half (slant) rhyme
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imperfect rhyme
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assonance
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repetition of 2 or more vowel sounds in a line
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consonance
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repetition of 2 or more consonant sounds within a line
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alliteration
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the repetition of one or more initial sounds
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onomatopoeia
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the use of words whose sounds suggest its meaning
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euphony
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the use of harmonious sounds to produce a pleasing effect
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cacophony
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the use inharmonious sounds in close conjunction for effect
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