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sonnet cycle
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a series of sonnets on a particular theme often to/for a particular person
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petrarchan sonnet
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italian meter, octave and sestet, ABBAABBA CDECDE
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Spenserian Sonnet
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iambic pentameter, three quatrains and a couplet, ABAB BCBC CDCD EE
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Shakespearian Sonnet
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iambic pentameter, three quatrains and a couplet, ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
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meter
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the system of stressed and unstressed syllables used by formal or metical verse (poetry)
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iamb
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unstressed, stressed (U/)
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trochee
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stressed, unstressed (/U), falling rhythm
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spondee
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Stressed, stressed (//)
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pyrrhic
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unstressed, unstressed (UU)
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Dactyl
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stressed, unstressed, unstressed (/UU), falling rhythm
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anapest
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unstressed, unstressed, stressed (UU/), a galloping foot
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foot
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a set of two syllables that breaks up the lines of formal verse
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substitution
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a deviation from the dominant type of meter used in the poem
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scansion
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the act of breaking apoem into metrical feet
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prosody
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the study of verse
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monometer
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1 metrical food, 2 syllables
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penthimimer/ dipody
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2 metrical feet, 4 syllables
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trimeter
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3 metrical feet, 6 syllables
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tetrameter
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4 feet, 8 syllables
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pentameter
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5 feet, 10 syllables
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hexameter/ alexandrine
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6 feet, 12 syllables
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stanza
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a consistent unit of lines
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couplet
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2 lines
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tercet
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3 lines
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quatrain
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4 lines
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pentastich
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5 lines
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sestet/hexastich
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6 lines
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septet
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7 lines
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octave/ octet
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8 lines
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decastich
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10 lines
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blank verse
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unrhymed lines in iambic pentameter
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free verse
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poetry of various line lengths, without formal meter or rhyme
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diction
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word choice; can be colloquial, formal, abstact, playful, etc
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syntax
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organization of words into sentences; can be concoluded, simple, declarative, inquisitive, etc
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denotation
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the direct and specific meaning of a word
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connotation
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what is suggested by a word apart from what it explicitly describes
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alliteration
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repetition of consonant sounds
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consonance
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repitition of identical consonant sounds before and after different vowels: slip/slop, black/block
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allegory
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a story in prose or verse that contains a surface meaning and a secondary, symbolic meaning
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allusion
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reference to outside texts, usually implicit
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apostrophe
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the direct address of an inanimate object, abstraction, or absent person: "Oh, God"
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onomatopoeia
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use of words that imitate sounds
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image, figurative language
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writing that tries to convey a picture on a reader's mind
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irony
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a contradiction of expectation between what is said or meant (verbal irony), or what is expected in a particular circumastance
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hyperbole
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deliberate exageration, overstatement
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litotes
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understatement
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metonomy
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a closely related word substituted for an object or idea
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motif
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any repeated idea, description, word, group of words, theme, trope, etc. that appears in a text
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mood
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the atmosphere of the text; the "feel" of the story or poem
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personification
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the endowment of inanimate objects or abstractions with living qualities
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pun
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play on words or a humorous use of a word with more than one implied meaning
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synesthesia
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describing an element of one sense with the terminology of another
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symbol
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a person, place, or thing that designates itself while also representing something else
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tone
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the attitude a literary work takes towards its theme or subject
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end stop
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a poetic line that ends grammatically where it ends spatially
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end rhyme
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rhyme at the end of a line
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head rhyme
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rhyme at the beginning of a line
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internal rhyme
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rhyme within the span of a line
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slant rhyme, off rhyme
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an incomplete or partial rhyme
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enjambment
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a poetic line that does not end grammatically where it ends spatially, that is, the syntax continues into the next line
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elision
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use of an apostrophe to slur a word to keep with meter, the removal of a syllable
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hymn
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a poem in praise of a god or a hero, a hymnal stanza is ABCB or ABAB in alternating iambic tetrameter or trimeter
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elegy
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a formal lament for the passing of an individual
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dramatic monologue
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a monologue set in a specific situation where a narrator speaks in verse and reveals psychological elements
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ode
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a grand lyrical poem of significant length, usually reserved for ceremonial occasions of for public use, medatative purposes of for private use
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Idyll, pastoral
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a poem that describes a bucolic country scene that evokes tranquil happiness
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