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13 Cards in this Set
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Meter
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the rhythm of a piece of poetry, measured by accentual rhythm, syllabic quantity, or the number of syllables in a line.
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Personification
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Giving human qualities to a non-human thing.
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Alliteration
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The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words
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Pantoum
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A poem type with a series of quatrains, where the 2nd and 4th lines of the preceding stanza become the 1st and 3rd lines of the next.
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Sestina
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Six 6 line stanzas, last words reapeat in 615243 pattern. The last stanza is a tercet with words 1 & 3 in the first line, words 4 & 3 in the second and words 6 and 1 in the last.
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Villanelle
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19-line poem with 5 tercets and a final quatrain. 1st and third lines of first stanza repeat alternatingly as the final line of the tercets. Last quatrain has both of the repeating lines.
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Couplet
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Two lines of a verse, usually joined by rhyme, forming a unit.
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Tercet
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Group of three lines
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Quatrain
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Stanza of 4 lines
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Sestet
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last six lines of a sonnet
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Blank Verse
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verse w/o rhyme, especially one that uses iambic pentameter.
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Iambic Petameter
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10 syllables, short/long/short/long etc...
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Rhyme Scheme
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The ordered pattern of rhymes
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