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24 Cards in this Set
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spondee
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stress stress (e.g. "heart, heart")
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caesura
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a marked pause in a line
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dactyl
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stress unstress unstress (e.g. "heartlessly")
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anapest
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unstress unstress stress (e.g. "in the heart")
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short couplet
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2 rhymed tetrameter lines
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quatrain
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4 line stanza
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metrical substitution
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change in meter (often to heighten key words)
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alliteration
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using words with common starting sounds
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common measure
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abcb rhymed quatrain in alternating lines of iambic tetrameter, trimeter
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trochee
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stress unstress (e.g. "heartless")
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prosody
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study of meter
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iamb
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unstress stress (e.g. "the heart")
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foot
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short combination of stressed or unstressed syllables
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scansion
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method of determining meter
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feminine ending
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unstressed end sound (light, delicate)
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meter
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ordered placement of accents/stresses
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syntax
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structure of words in a sentence
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diction
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word choice
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blank verse
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unrhymed iambic pentameter
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heroic couplet
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2 rhymed pentameter lines
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ballad
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short, simple narrative form, usually: quatrains; tetrameter, trimeter; abcb rhyme
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enjambment
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a line with no syntactical or punctuational marker at the end
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3 emphases that distinguish poetry from prose
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emphasis on: line, rhythm, and compression
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line lengths (8, in feet)
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monometer, dimeter, trimeter, tetrameter, pentameter, hexameter, heptameter, octameter
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