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15 Cards in this Set
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Stanza
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A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form--either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter, or with variations from one stanza to another.
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Rhythm
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The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.
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Foot
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A metrical unit composed of stressed and unstressed syllables.
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Meter
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The measured pattern of "Feet" in poems.
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Sight rhyme
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a rhyme in which two words are spelled similarly but pronounced differently
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Slant
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End rhyme that is not a full rhyme, but approximate
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Identical
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Two words that sound the same, but are spelled differently
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End
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Rhyme that occurs at the end of a line of poetry
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Internal
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Rhyme that occurs within a single line of poetry
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Rhyme Scheme
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the pattern of rhyme in a stanza (ABAB; CDCDE)
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Imagery
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Important part of poetry in which something is described relating to the senses.
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Symbolism
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practice of representing things by symbols, or of investing things with a symbolic meaning or character.
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Alliteration
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repetition of a particular sound in the prominent lifts (or stressed syllables) of a series of words or phrases.
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Simile
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A figure of speech involving a comparison between unlike things using like, as, or as though.
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Metaphor
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A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as like or as.
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