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15 Cards in this Set
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Meter
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type of measurment
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Image
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a mental representation
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Free Verse
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a poetry of a regular pattern meter or rhyme
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Caesura
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A strong pause within a line of verse
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Closed Form
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A type of form or structure in poetry
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Alliteration
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The repetition of consonant sounds
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Assonance
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The repetition of similar vowel sounds
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Black Verse
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A line of poetry or prose
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Couplet
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A pair of ryhmed may or may not be in a separate stanza poem
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Dactyl
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A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones
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Figurative Language
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A form a language use in which writers and speakers convey
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Lyric poem
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A type of poem characterized by brevity
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Foot
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A metrical unit composed of stressed and unstressed syllables
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Epic
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A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero
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Metaphor
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A comparison between like or as
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