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31 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
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couplet
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two lined stanza
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tercet
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three lined stanza
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quatrain
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four lined stanza
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cinquain
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fine lined stanza
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sestet
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six lined stanza
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septet
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seven lined stanza
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octet
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eight lined stanza
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iambic
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u/
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trochaic
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/u
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anapestic
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uu/
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dactyllic
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/uu
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spondaic
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//
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feet
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metrical units
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rhythm
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the melody of the language created by stressed and unstressed syllables
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onomatopoeia
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the sound of the weird suggests it's meaning
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alliteration
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repetition of initial consonants sounds in several words
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assonance
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repetition of the same vowel sound
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consonance
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repetition of consonants in the middle and ends of words
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run on
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no end punctuation
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narrative poetry
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objective verse with regular rhyme scheme and meter which tells a story
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lyric poetry
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short rhythmic poetry which does not tell a story but reveals strong feelings to create a single strong emotion
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sonnet
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14 lines of iambic pentameterShakespeare
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ode
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lyric poetry which desks with complex themesvarying lengths
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blank verse
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unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter
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epic
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long dignified narrative poem which gives the account of a *** important to his race or nation
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elegy
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a poem of remembrance written upon the occasion of death
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lament
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a poem of sadness
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ballad
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simple narrative verse which tells a story meant to be sung or recited easily
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Limerick
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humorous nonsense verse in 5 lines with the rhyme scheme aabba
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end rhyme
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her cheeks were like a rose, as red as her nose.
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internal rhyme
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doctor bell fell down the well
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