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24 Cards in this Set

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