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21 Cards in this Set
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rhythm
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refers to any wavelike recurrence of motion or sound. In speech it is the natural rise and fall of language.
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meter
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the identifying characteristic of rhythmic language that we can tap our feet to.
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foot
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consists normally of one accented syllable plus one or two unaccented syllables.
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iamb/iambic
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unstressed, stressed, etc.
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trochee/trochaic
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stressed, unstressed, etc.
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anapest/anapestic
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unstressed, unstressed, stressed, etc.
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dactyl/dactylic
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stressed, unstressed, unstressed, etc.
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spondee/spondaic
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stressed, stressed
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dimeter
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two feet in a line
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trimeter
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three feet in a line
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tetrameter
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four feet in a line
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pentameter
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five feet in a line
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alliteration
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repetition of initial consonant sounds ("rhyme and reason")
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assonance
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the repetition of vowel sounds ("mad as a hatter")
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consonance
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the repetition of final consonant sounds ("odds and ends")
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onomatopoeia
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words that look like the sound they are describing
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rhyme
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the repetition of the accented vowel sound and any succeeding consonant sounds.
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internal rhyme
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when one or more rhyming sounds are within the line
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end rhyme
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when the rhyming words are at the end of lines
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blank verse
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unrhymed iambic pentameter
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free verse
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except for line arrangement, there are no necessary differences between its rhythms and the rhythms of prose
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