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blank verse
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poetry or lines of dramatic verse written in unrhymed iambic pentameter(meter made up of five iambic feet to a line of verse
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Which author is famous for using blank verse in his play?
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shakespeare
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an example of blank verse
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O par/don me,/thou bleed/ing piece/ of earth.
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free verse
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poetry that has no fixed pattern of meter and rhyme
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free verse often uses...
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sound devices and a rhyme similar to that of human speech
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speaker
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the narrator or persona of the poem
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can you always assume that the speaker is the poet?
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no
"the speaker suggests" rather than "the poet suggests" |
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lyric poem
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verse that expresses the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker.
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is lyric poem usually short or long?
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short
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figurative language
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language or expressions that are not literally true but express some truth beyond the literal level
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hyperbole
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a figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor
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metaphor
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a figure of speech that compares two or more things without using like or as
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personification
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a figure of speech in which an animal, object, force of nature or idea is given human qualities or characteristics
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simile
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a figure of speech using like or as to compare similar things
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understatement
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language that makes something seem less than it really is
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