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11 Cards in this Set
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Pastoral
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Literary genre that deals with the life of a shepherd in an idealized way
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Ecglogue
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Short pastoral poem in the form of a dialogue or soliloquy
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Epic
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Extended narrative poem in blank verse that celebrates heroic deeds - includes an invocation, a catalogue, epic similes, and extended descriptions
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Blazon
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A poem in which the beloved's face is compared to a garden
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Emblem Poem
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Combines text and images to illustrate an idea or principle
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Blank verse
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Unrhymed iambic pentameter - used by Milton in Paradise Lost
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Petrarchan Sonnet
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Two quatrains and a sestet
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Shakespearean (English) Sonnet
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Three quatrains and a couplet
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Spenserian Stanza
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Eight iambic pentameters followed by one iambic hexameter
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Metaphysical (Dark) Conceit
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Elaborate metaphor that compares two seemingly different things
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Spenserian Sonnet
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Iambic Pentameter - three quatrains and a couplet
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