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25 Cards in this Set
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Who wrote Those Winter Sundays about the father who labors for the family in the cold?
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Robert Hayden
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Who wrote The Bean Eaters about the old poor couple in the rented back room?
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Gwendolyn Brooks
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Who wrote The Red Wheelbarrow?
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William Carlos Williams
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Who wrote On Being Told I Don't Speak Like a Black Person?
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Allison Joseph
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Who wrote Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter, about wasting time on this snowy night?
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Robert Bly
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Who wrote Eros about the beaten up cupid?
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Anne Stevenson
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Who wrote The Lighters about the woman who keeps her husbands lighters?
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Rennie McQuilkin
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The repetition of identical vowel sounds in different words. As in Swift Camilla skims (short i's)
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Assonance
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the repetition of identical consonant sounds that begin syllables
Pensive poets painful |
Alliteration
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a blend of consonant and vowel sounds designed to imitate or suggest a situation or action
buzz, bump, slap clang and clap and roar |
Onomatopoeia
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recurrent consonant sounds
curled, far |
Consonance
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iambic foot
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U /
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trochaic foot
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/ U
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spondaic foot
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/ /
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anapestic foot
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U U /
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dactylic foot
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/ U U
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pyrrhic foot
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U U as in the sea(son of) mist
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couplet
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two line stanza riming AA
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quatrain
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four line stanza with many rime variations
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ballad stanza
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quatrain riming ABCB
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heroic quatrain
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quatrain riming ABAB other versions are ABBA and AABA
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Chaucerian Stanza
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ABABBCC seven line rime royal
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Ottava Rima
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ABABABCC eight lines
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Spenserian stanza
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riming ABABBCBBC
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Stanza
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a group of two or more lines of poetry combined according to some definite plan and constituting a division of the poem
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