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27 Cards in this Set
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lyric |
a brief subjective poem strongly marked by imagination, melody, and emotion and creating a single, unified impression |
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free verse |
verse without a set rhyme scheme or meter |
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blank verse |
verse written in unrhymed iambic pentameter |
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villanelle |
a fixed 19-line form, using only 2 rhymes and repeating 2 of the lines according to a set pattern |
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elegy |
a sustained and formal poem setting forth meditations on death or another solemn theme |
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ballad |
a narrative poem with a song-like rhythm/meter |
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sonnet |
14 line lyric poem; almost always written in iambic pentameter |
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Shakespearean/ English Sonnet |
sonnet consisting of 3 quatrains followed by a couplet, rhyming abab cdcd efef gg |
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Spenserian |
a type of English sonnet in that it has 3 quatrains and a couplet, however, the rhyme scheme links the stanzas as follows: abab bcbc cdcd ee |
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quatrain |
four-line stanza |
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couplets |
2 line stanza usually with the same end rhyme |
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sestet |
6 line stanza |
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tercet |
3 line stanza with end rhyme the same |
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octet |
8 line stanza |
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end rhyme |
rhyme at the ends of lines in a poem |
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internal rhyme |
rhyme that occurs at some place before the last syllables in a line |
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eye/sight rhyme |
rhyme that appears correct from the spelling but is not so from the pronunciation |
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slant/near rhyme |
usually the substitution of assonance or consonance for true rhyme |
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foot/feet |
the smallest unit of rhythm in verse |
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iambic |
a foot with 2 syllables, one that is not stressed and one that is, in that order |
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trochee |
a foot with 2 syllables, one that is stressed and then one that is not |
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anapest |
a foot with three syllables, two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable |
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dactlye |
a foot with three syllables, one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed |
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spondee |
a foot with two syllables, both of which are stressed |
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tetrameter |
4 feet per line |
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pentameter |
5 feet per line |
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hexameter |
6 feet per line |
