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10 Cards in this Set
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Blank verse |
lines of unrhymed poetry each of which had five stressed syllables
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Modulation |
irregular stress pattern in a sentence
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Short verse line |
Implies a pause for an actor
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Alexandrine |
line with an extra stress – puts added emphasis on the extra word(s)
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Headless line |
missing out the first un-stressed syllable
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Feminine ending |
extra un-stressed syllable giving the line a softer ending
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End-stopping |
sense of a line completed at the end of the line
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can give an added power/gravitas to line readings
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Caesura |
natural pause in a line of blank verse, can be reinforced with a full-stop
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Enjambment |
when the sense of the line runs from one line into the next
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reinforces either the word at the end of the line or the first word of the next line
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Rhyming couplets |
give a firm conclusion, absence of can imply ambiguity. Give a sense of jesting and/or parody |
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