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Sonnet |
Find the Italian meaning little song, A 14 line poem |
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Petrarchan Sonnet |
Otherwise known as an Italian sonnet, a a fourteen line poem that is divided by an octave and a sestet |
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Free verse |
Poetry that is written with out a rhyme scheme |
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End rhyme |
Rhyme that occurs when the last word or words of one line of poetry rhyme with the last word or words of another |
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Internal rhyme |
When rhyme occurs within a line of poetry, as opposed to end of the line |
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Near rhyme |
When an author uses poetic license to rhyme words that do not quite sound the same |
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Octave |
The first eight line of a Petrarchan sonnet. Typically introduces a problem or question that is not answered or resolved |
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Sestet |
The last six lines of a Petrarchan sonnet. A sestet typically responds to the problem or question that had been posed in an octave and attempts to answer out resolve it. |
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Quatrain |
A four line stanza |
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Couplet |
Two rhyming lines of poetry that share the same meter |
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Turn |
The moment, word or line in a sonnet in which a shift has been made between conflict and resolution |
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Meter |
The measured pattern of stressed or unstressed syllables within a sink line of poetry |
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Iambic Pentameter |
A 5-foot line made up of unaccented followed by an accented syllable |
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Caesura |
A pause within a line of poetry, sometimes punctuated, sometimes not |
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Shakespearean sonnet |
Otherwise known as an English sonnet, a sonnet is a 14 line poem that is divided into a three quatrains and the heroic couplet |
