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27 Cards in this Set
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poetry
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type of literature that express ideas, feelings
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poet
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the poet is the author of the poen
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speaker
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the speaker of the poem is the narrator of the poem
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form
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the appearance of the words on the page
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line
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a group of words together on one line of the poem
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stanza
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a group of lines arranged together
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couplet
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a two line stanza
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triplet (tercet)
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a three line stanza
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quatrain
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a four line stanza
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quintent
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a five line stanza
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sestet (sextet)
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a six lina stanza
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septet
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a seven lina stanza
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octave
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a eight line stanza
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rhythem
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the beat created by the sounds of the words in a poem
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meter
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a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
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foot
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unit of meter.
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lambic
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unstressed, stressed
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trochaic
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stressed, unstressed
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anapestic
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unstressed, unstressed, stressed
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monometer
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one foot in a line
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dimeter
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two feet on a line
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trimeter
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three feet on a line
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tetrameter
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four feet on a line
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pentameter
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five feet on a line
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hexameter
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six feet on a line
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free verse
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does not have any repeating patterns and does not have rhyme..
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blank verse
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written in lines of iambic pentameter, but does not use end rhyme.
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