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15 Cards in this Set
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Prosody
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the systematic analysis of the elements of meter, rhyme, and speech-sound patterns and effects in poetry
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meter
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regualer recurrence of a quantifiable pattern of speech-sounds of a language
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rhythm
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the pattern of stresses in a stream of speech-sounds
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foot
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the combination of stressed and unstressed sounds that form a unit repeated within a poetic line
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Iamb
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unstressed, stressed
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trochee
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stressed, unstressed
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anapest
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two unstressed then stressed
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dactyl
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stressed followed by two unstressed
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spondee
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two stressed
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pyrrhic
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two unstressed
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masculine rhyme
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repeated final stressed ryllable at then end of poetic lines
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feminie rhyme
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repeated stressed syllable and subsequent unstressed syllable at the end of a poetic line
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assibabce
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repitition of identical or similar vowel sounds in a sequence of words
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opnomatopoeia
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a word or group of words whose sound resembles the sound denoted. also a group of words that achieve the effect or experience of whatever is described
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sonnet
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a short poem consisting of 14 lines or iambic pentameter linked by a complex shyme scheme. "italian" octave and sestet; "english"sonnets usually break into 3 quatrains and a couplet
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