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15 Cards in this Set
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Stanza
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an arrangement of a certain number of lines, usually four or more, sometimes having a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme, forming a division of a poem.
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Rhythm
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movement or procedure with uniform or patterned recurrence of a beat, accent, or the like.
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Foot
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single rhythmic unit. It is one stressed syllable (or “beat”) and one or more unstressed syllables.
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meter
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the number of feet in a line of poetry.
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Sight rhyme
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two words look alike but don’t sound alike
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Slant Rhyme
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two words are nearly rhymed but slightly different
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identical Rhyme
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two words are spelled differently but have the same pronunciation
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End Rhyme
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the rhyming words occur at the ends of lines of poetry.
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Internal Rhyme
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the rhyme occurs inside a line
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Rhyme Scheme
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the pattern of rhyming lines in a poem.
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imagery
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the formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or of such images collectively
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Symbolism
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the 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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the commencement of two or more stressed syllables of a word group either with the same consonant sound or sound group
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Simile
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a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared
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Metaphor
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a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance
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