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27 Cards in this Set
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Poetry
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A type of literature that expresses ideas, feelings, or tells a story in a specific form (usually using lines and stanzas)
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Poet
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The author of the poem
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Speaker
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The narrator of the poem(telling the story)
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Form
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the appearance of the words on 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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Two line stanza
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Triplet (Tercet)
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Three line stanza
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Quatrain
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Four line stanza
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Quintet
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Five line stanza
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Sestet (Sextet)
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Six line poem
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Septet
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Seven line poem
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Octave (Octet)
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Eight line poem
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Rhythm
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The beat created by the sounds of the words in a poem.
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Meter
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A patten of stressed and unstressed syllables.
Stressed(strong word) Unstressed(weak word) |
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Foot
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A unit of meter
Usually consists of one stressed and one or more unstressed syllables |
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Types of Feet
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Iambic- unstressed, stressed
Trochaic- stressed, unstressed Anapestic- unstressed, unstressed, stressed Dactylic- stressed, unstressed, unstressed |
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Monometer
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One foot on a line
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Dimeter
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Two feet on a line
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Trimeter
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Three feet on a line
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Tetrameter
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Four feet on a line
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Pentameter
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Five feet on a line
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Hexameter
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Six feet on a line
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Heptameter
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Seven feet on a line
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Octometer
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Eight feet on a line
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Free Verse
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Does not have any repeating patterns and does not rhyme
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Blank Verse
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Written in lines of iambic pentameter, but does not use end rhyme
Last word in poem does not rhyme |
