Lit Terms 3

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Dirge

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A mournful song or piece of music

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Anapest

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Metrical foot consisting of 3 syllable, two unstressed syllables followed by an stressed one

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Scansion

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System for describing rhythms by dividing lines into feet

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Slant Rhyme

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A rhyming scheme with words that sound similar but not exactly the same

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Sonnet

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A poem or 14 lines and following several set rhyme scheme

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Spondee

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A foot composed of 2 stressed syllables

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Trochee

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A foot consisting of an stressed and unstressed syllable

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Ode

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A single, unified strain of exalted lyrical verse,directed to a single purpose with one theme

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Pastoral

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a poem treating shepherds and rustic life

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Quatrain

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piece of verse complete in four rhymed lines

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Tetrameter

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A line consisting of four feet

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Ballad

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A form of verse to be sung and characterized by it's presentation of a dramatic or exciting episode in simple narrative form

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Apostrophe

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A figure of speech in which someone, nonexistent is directly addressed as though present

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Consonance

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literary device identified by the repetition of identical or similar consonants in neighboring words whose vowel sounds are different

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Dactyl

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A foot consisting of 1 stressed syllable followed by 2 unstressed syllables

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Feminine Rhyme

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consists of at least two words, each having a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable

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Masculine Rhyme

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Rhyme that falls on the stressed, concluding syllables of the rhyme

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Kenning

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Figurative phrase used in language as a synonym for a simple noun

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Foot

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Unit of rhyme in verse

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Hexameter

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A line of six feet

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Pentameter

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A line of verse of five feet

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Free verse

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Any poem that does not follow a specific meter or rhyme scheme

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Enjambment

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Poetic term for the continuation of a sentence or phrase from one line to the next

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iamb

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Metrical unit consisting of two syllables where an unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed

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End-stopped Rhyme

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Metrical line ending at a grammatical boundary or break