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29 Cards in this Set
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Alliteration
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repetition of initial sounds
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Assonance
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repetition of internal vowel sounds
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Blank Verse
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unrhymed iambic pentameter
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Cadence
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balanced, rhythmic flow of poetry
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Conceit
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elaborate or exaggerated metaphor; ingenious or witty thought
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Connotation
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associations or implications that go beyond the literal meaning of a word
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Couplet
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two consecutive rhyming lines, usually with the same meter
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End-Stopped Line
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poetic line that has a pause at the end, usually marked by punctuation
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Enjambment
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When one line ends without a pause and continues into the next line for its meaning; also called run-on line
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Epic
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long, narrative poem, told in a formal, elevated style with a serious subject
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Euphony
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language that is smooth and musically pleasant to the ear; literally "good sound"
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Foot
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metrical unit by which a line of poetry is measured; a foot usually consists of one stressed and one or two unstressed syllables
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Iambic (Foot)
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one unstressed, one stressed ("away")
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Trochaic (Foot)
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one stressed, one unstressed ("lovely")
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Anapestic (Foot)
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two unstressed, one stressed ("understand")
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Dactylic (Foot)
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one stressed, two unstressed ("desperate")
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Iamb
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one unstressed, one stressed syllable
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Measure
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specified unit, such as a foot or a line
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Quatrain
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four-line stanza
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Rhyme
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repetition of identical or similar concluding syllables in different words usually at the end of a line
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Feminine (Rhyme)
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a rhymed stressed syllable followed by one or more identical unstressed syllables (butter, clutter; gratitude, attitude; quivering, shivering)
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Internal (Rhyme)
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places at least one of the rhymed words within the line ("Dividing and gliding and sliding")
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Masculine (Rhyme)
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rhyming of single-syllable words (grade, shade); also in rhyming words of more than one syllable when the same sound occurs int he final stressed syllable (defend, contend)
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Scansion
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process of measuring the stresses in a line of verse in order to determine the metrical pattern of the line
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Sonnet
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fixed form of lyric poetry that consists of fourteen lines
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Italian/Petrarchan (Sonnet)
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divided into an octave, typically abbaabba, and a sestet (possibly cdecde, cdcdcd, cdccdc); usually octave presents a situation and the sestet comments or resolves
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English/Shakespearean (Sonnet)
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divided into three quatrains and a couplet, typically abab cdcd efef gg
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Trochee
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metrical foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by one unaccented ("barter")
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Volta
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turn in the arrangement or mood of a sonnet; 9th line in Italian, couplet in English
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