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42 Cards in this Set
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euphony
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a series of pleasant sounds
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cacophony
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sounds that are deliberately unpleasant
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alliteration
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repetition of the initial consonant sounds
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assonance
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the repetition of similar vowel sounds
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consonance
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the repetition of similar consonant sounds
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masculine rhyme
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occurs between single stressed syllable
(fleece, release, surcease, niece) |
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feminine rhyme/double rhyme
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matches two syllables, the first stressed and the second usually unstressed
(stinging, upbringing, flinging) |
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triple rhyme
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feminine rhyme... a step further
(slithering, withering) |
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slant rhyme
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contains hints of sound repetition
(chill, dull, sale) |
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end rhymes
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rhymes occurring at the ends of lines
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rhyme scheme
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the assignment of letters to the sounds
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internal rhyme
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rhymes found in the interior of lines
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parallel structure
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repetition of grammatically similar phrases or clauses
(to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield) |
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anaphora
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repeated words or phrases at the beginning of lines
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epistrophe
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repeated words or phrases at the end of lines
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antithesis
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matching of parallel units that contain contrasting meanings
(Maternal as well as paternal, a child as well as a man) |
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poetry
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a whole genre of literature
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verse
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a mode of writing in lines of certain length
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mnemonic verse
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information cast in a form that is easy to remember
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lightverse/occasional verse
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lines written for a specific occasion
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prose
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unconcerned about the length of individual lines and is governed only by the width of the paper being used
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prose poetry
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language in a poetic manner but avoids any type of meter
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meter/measure
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the method by which a poet determines line length
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prosody
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system of measurement
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syllabic verse
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the length of the line is determined by counting the total number of syllables the line contains
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Alexanderines
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twelve-syllable lines
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octosyllabic
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line of eight syllables
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quantitative syllabics
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stanzas containing the same number lines with identical numbers of syllables in the corresponding lines of different stanzas
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accentual verse
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a prosodic system in which only accented or strongly stressed syllables are counted in a line, which cnan also contain a varying number of unaccented syllables
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sprung rhythm
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counting only the strong stresses
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accentual-syllabic verse
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counting both the strongly stressed syllables and the total number of syllables in the line
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metrical feet
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subdivisions of rhythem that make up the line
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iamb
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one unstressed and one stressed syllable
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trochee
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one stressed and one unstressed syllable
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anapest
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two unstressed syllables and one stressed syllable
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dactyl
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one stressed and two unstressed syllables
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double meters
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iambic and trochaic meters
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triple meters
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dactylic and anapestic meters
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rising meters
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iambic and anapestic
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falling meters
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trochaic and dactylic
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breve
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unstressed syllables
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ictus
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stressed syllables
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