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23 Cards in this Set
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prosody
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refers to mechanics (nuts and bolts) of poetry [meter, rhyme, etc.]
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poetics
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how does the poem work? what is it doing?
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Quantitative Structure
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rhythm as related to length (quantity) of syllables [Greek and Latin poetry]
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Qualitative Structure
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rhythm as related to stress/accent (quality) of syllables [English poetry]
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iamb
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da-DUM
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trochee
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DUM-da
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dactyl
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DUM-da-da
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anapest
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da-da-DUM
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spondee
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DUM-DUM
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pyrrhic foot
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da-da
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amphibrach
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da-DUM-da
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scansion
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analysis of rhythm/meter of a poem
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cesura
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"pause"; can be with punctuation
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anacrusis
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introduction of an unstressed syllable at the beginning of a line of regular meter
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Blank Verse
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unrhymed iambic pentameter; created by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey; Greeks/Romans used dactylic hexameter; early-modern English drama (Shakespeare, Marlowe), Milton's Paradise Lost
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elision
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when syllables in a word are combined in pronunciation
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catalectic
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missing final syllable of a line of regular meter [ex. trochaic tetrameter catalectic]
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promotion
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being "trained" by the meter of a poem stress syllables you normally wouldn't
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pastoral poetry
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shepherds
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hymn stanza
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"common meter"; quatrains; line 2/4 rhyme; line 1/3 may rhyme
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long meter
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rhymed quatrains with all 4 lines being iambic tetrameter (instead of only 1st and 3rd)
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anisobaric rhyme
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"unequal" pressure (sing/morning)
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anaphora
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repetition of line beginnings; usually a repeated phrase
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