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A line of poetry that has 12 syllables. The name probably comes from a medieval romance about Alexander the Great that was written in 12-syllable lines.
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Alexandrine
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A metrical foot of three syllables, two short (or unstressed) followed by one long (or stressed), as in 'twas the night and to the moon. The anapest is the reverse of the dactyl.
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Anapest
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A figure of speech in which words and phrases with opposite meanings are balanced against each other. An example of antithesis is "To err is human, to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope)
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Antithesis
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Words that are spoken to a person who is absent or imaginary, or to an object or abstract idea. The poem God's World by Edna St. Vincent Millay begins with an apostrophe: "O World, I cannot hold thee close enough!/Thy winds, thy wide grey skies!/Thy mists that roll and rise!"
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Apostrophe
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The repetition or a pattern of similar sounds, especially vowel sounds, as in the tongue twister "Moses supposes his toeses are roses."
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Assonance
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A type of poem, usually with three stanzas of seven, eight, or ten lines and a shorter final stanza (or envoy) of four or five lines. All stanzas end with the same one-line refrain.
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Ballade
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Poetry that is written in unrhymed iambic pentameter.
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Blank verse
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A natural pause or break in a line of poetry, usually near the middle of the line.
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Caesura
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A medieval Italian lyric poem, with five or six stanzas and a shorter concluding stanza (or envoy).
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Canzone
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An epic poem of the 11th to the 14th century, written in Old French, which details the exploits of a historical or legendary figure.
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Chanson de geste
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The principles and ideals of beauty that are characteristic of Greek and Roman art, architecture, and literature.
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Classicism
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A fanciful poetic image or metaphor that likens one thing to something else that is seemingly very different.
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Conceit
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A metrical foot of three syllables, one long (or stressed) followed by two short (or unstressed), as in happily. The dactyl is the reverse of the anapest.
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Dactyl
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A poem that laments the death of a person, or one that is simply sad and thoughtful.
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Elegy
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The continuation of a complete idea (a sentence or clause) from one line or couplet of a poem to the next line or couplet without a pause.
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Enjambment
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The shorter final stanza of a poem, as in a ballade.
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Envoy, or Envoi
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A short, witty poem.
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Epigram
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A poem in honor of a bride and bridegroom.
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Epithalamium (or Epithalamion)
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A multi-syllable rhyme that ends with one or more unstressed syllables: paper/vapor, vacation/proclamation.
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Feminine rhyme
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A six-line poem in which the number of syllables per line follow the Fibonacci sequence: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8
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Fib
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Two or more syllables that together make up the smallest unit of rhythm in a poem.
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Foot
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Poetry composed of either rhymed or unrhymed lines that have no set meter.
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Free verse (also vers libre)
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A line of poetry that has seven metrical feet.
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Heptameter
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A stanza composed of two rhymed lines in iambic pentameter.
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Heroic couplet
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A line of poetry that has six metrical feet.
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Hexameter
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unwillingness to tell lies
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Veracity
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like an elegy, sad, lamenting, death-related
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Elegiac
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like an epigram, short with a clever twist or witty saying at the end
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Epigrammatic
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relating to/conforming to syntax rules
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Syntactic
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the study of the structure of words
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Syntax
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a person authorized to conduct religious worship
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Curates
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well-off, in plenty
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Affluent
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growth by rapid multiplication of parts
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Proliferation
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a statement that contradicts itself
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Paradox
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being born, or beginning
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Nascent
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to beg persistantly and urgently
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Importune
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mixed feelings or emotions
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Ambivalence
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