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49 Cards in this Set
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Line
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The basic unit of poetry
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Meter
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The measured arrangement of words in poetry
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Rhyme Scheme
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The pattern of rhyming words at the end of each line
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Repetition
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The repeating of a sound, word, or phrase for emphasis
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Simile
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A figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared using like or as
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Metaphor
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A figure of speech in which an implied caparison is made between two unlike things that actually have something important in common
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Alliteration
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The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words
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Imagery
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An appeal to the senses
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Hyperbole
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An exaggerated statement used to heighten effect, but to emphasize a point
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Idiom
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A phrase where the words together have a meaning that is different from the dictionary definitions of the original word
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Onomatopoeia
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A word that imitates a sound
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Personification
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A figure of speech which gives the qualities of a person to an animal, object, or an idea
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Free verse
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Poetry that is written without proper rules about form, rhyme, rhythm, and meter
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Haiku
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A 17 syllable verse form of consisting of three metered lines or 5, 7, 5 syllables
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Limerick
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Consists of five line with the rhyme scheme a a b b a
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Stanza
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Contains lines
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Form
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the appearance of the words in the page
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Line
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A group of words together on one line of the poem
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Stanza
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A group of lines arranged together
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Couplet
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a two line stanza
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Triplet(Tercet)
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A three line stanza
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Quatrain
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a four line stanza
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Quintet
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A five line stanza
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Sestet(Sextet)
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a six line stanza
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Septet
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A seven line stanza
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Octave
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a eight line stanza
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Rhythm
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the beat created by the sounds of words in a poem
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Foot
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unit of meter
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Iambic
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unstressed -> stressed
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Trochaic
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stressed -> unstressed
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Anapestic
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unstressed -> unstressed -> stressed
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Dactylic
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stressed -> unstressed -> unstressed
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monometer
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one foot in a line
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dimeter
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two feet in a line
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trimeter
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three feet in a line
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tetrometer
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four feet in a line
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pentameter
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five feet in a line
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hexameter
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six feet in a line
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heptameter
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seven feet in a line
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Octometer
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eight feet in a line
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Free verse
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Conversational, does not have rhyme
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Blank Verse
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Written in lines of iambic pentameter. does not use end rhyme
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IDIOM
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AN EXPRESSION HAS A MEANING APART FROM THE MEANINGS OF ITS INDIVIDUAL WORDS
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PUN
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A PLAY ON WORDS
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SONNET
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A 14 LINE POEM THAT RHYMES. IT CAN'T HAVE MORE OR LESS THAN 14 THAT RHYME
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SHAKESPEAREAN SONNET
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SAME AS ENGLISH SONNET- ABAB, CDCD, EFEF, GG
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ITALIAN SONNET
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LINES ARE DIVIDED INTO TWO PARTS
CDECDE. CDCDCD. CDCDEE |
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SYMBOLISM
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SOMETHING THAT STANDS FOR OR REPRESENTS SOMETHING ELSE
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SLANT RHYME
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RHYMES THAT SOUND LIKE THEY RHYME OR COULD RHYME BUT DON'T
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