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28 Cards in this Set
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Poet
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Author of the poem
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Speacker
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Narrator of the poem
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Form
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Apperance of the words on the page
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Line
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a group of words in one line of a poem
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Stanza
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a group of lines are arranged together
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Couplet
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a two line stanza
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Triplet (Tercet)
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a three line stanza
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Quatrain
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a four line stanza
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Quintet
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a five line stanza
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Sestest (Sextet)
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a seven line stanza
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Octave (Octate)
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an eight line stanza
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Rhythm
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the beat created by th sound of word in a poem
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Meter
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A pattern ofc stressed and unstressed syllables
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Foot
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Unit of meter (Syllables)
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Lambic
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Unstressed, stressed
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Trochaic
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Stressed, Unstressed
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Anapestic
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Unstressed, unstressed, stressed
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Dactylic
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stressed, unstressed, unstressed
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Mononmeter
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One foot on a line
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Dimeter
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Two feet on a line
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Trimeter
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Three feet on a line
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Tetrameter
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Four feet on a line
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Pentameter
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Five feet on a line
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Hexameter
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Six feet in a line
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Hyptameter
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Seven feet in a line
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Octometer
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Eight feet on line
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Free Verse
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Does not have rhyme
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Blank Verse
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Written in line of iambic pentameter, but does not use end ryhme
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