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30 Cards in this Set
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English or Shakespearian Sonnet |
rhyming ababcdcdefefgg three quatrains with ending couplet |
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Feminine Rhyme |
rhyme in which the stressed syllable is on the second to last one |
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Foot |
basic unit in the scansion of verse |
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Free Verse |
nonmetrical verse, no pattern or expectation |
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Half Rhyme |
is consonance on the final consonants of words |
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Heroic Couplet |
sequence of two lines usually in an iambic pentameter |
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Iamb |
a foot containing one unaccented and then one accented sylllable |
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Iambic Pentameter |
contains iambs most common english meter |
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Internal Rhyme |
rhyme when one of both of the words are within the line |
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Italian Sonnet |
sonnet with an octave rhyming abbaabba with a following sestet |
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Masculine Rhyme |
rhyme with stress on the final syllable of words |
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Meter |
regularized rhythm, arrangement of sounds over time |
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Octave |
eight line stanza, |
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Perfect Rhyme |
rhyme when the later part of a word is identical sounding to another |
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Pentameter |
a metrical line with five feet |
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Quatrain |
four line stanza |
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Refrain |
repeated line, word or phrase in a fixed stanzaic form |
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Rhyme |
the repetition of identical or similar accented sounds in a work |
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Rhyme Scheme |
the fixed pattern of rhyme in a stanza |
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Scansion |
the process of measuring verse |
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Sestet |
six line stanza |
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Spondee |
a foot with two equally accented syllables |
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stanza |
group of lines with metrical pattern that are repeated throughout a poem |
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Syntax |
arrangement of word to form phrases and sentences |
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Terza Rima |
three line stanza form aba bcb cdc |
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Tetrameter |
metrical line with four feet |
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Trimeter |
metrical line with three feet |
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Triple Meter |
meter in which a majority of the feet contain three syllables |
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Trochee |
one accented syllable one unaccented |
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trochaic |
majority of feet are trochees |
