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12 Cards in this Set
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Caesura
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Natural break in hexameter line when word end occurs within a metrical foot
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Dactyl
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Long syllable followed by two shorts
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Diaeresis
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word end with metrical foot
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Diastole
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Lengthening of a syllable, regularly short
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Elegiac Couplet
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meter of love elegy, dactylic hexameter followed by a pentameter
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Elision
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dropping of final vowel or m before a word beginning with a vowel or h
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Hexameter
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metrical line of six feet, dactyls and spondees are interchangeable cept for fifth foot dactyl and sixth foot spondee
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Ictus
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metrical stress of first syllable in the foot
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Pentameter
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five feet in two half of two feet either dactyl or spondee and a half foot of long syllable, second half has 2 dactyls with a long syllable
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Spondee
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metrical foot with two long syllable
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Syncope
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loss of a short vowel or syllable within a word
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Systole
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shortening of a syllable regularly long
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