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doggerel
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a term used for lines whose subject matter is monotoniously rythm and sounds
Doggerel is usually the sincere product of poetic incompetence, and only unintentionally humorou |
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paraphrase
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restatement of the central ideas of a poem in your "own langage"
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metaphor
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implied comparission between two reletively unlike things using a form of TO BE
-the road was a ribbon of moonlight |
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speaker
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voice used by author of poem
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anagram
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words made from letters of other words
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lyric poem
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emotions/thoughts of a speaker
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naritive poem
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tells a story
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epic
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(subset of naritive poem)
long, chronicalling, herioc deeds, events |
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sentimentality
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exploits readers by getting more emoton out of them than is necessary
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diction
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choice of words
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poetic diction
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use of elevated language rather than ordinary language
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formal diction
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dignified,impersonal,elevated language-NOT casual or relaxed
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middle diction
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spoken by most educated people
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informal diction
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plain language of everyday use
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colloquial:conversational, uncommon slang
dialect:spoken by definable groups of people. |
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denotation
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literal meaning of a word
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connotation
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associations of a word
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persona
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speaker created by poet
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ambiguity
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allows for 2 or more interpretations of a word
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syntax
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he study of the principles and rules for constructing sentences in natural languages.
(arrangement) |
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tone
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a literary technique which encompasses the attitudes toward the subject and toward the audience implied in a literary work
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dramatic monologue
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when the speaker adresses a silent audience in a way that reveals unintentially some aspect of their personality
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carpe diem poem
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SIEZE THE DAY
HUZZAHHHHHHHHH |
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allusion
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brief cultural reference to person/place/thing/event in history
(marvell noir) |
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implied metaphor
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understated understanding of one thing in terms of another
-analogy he stood his ground like a mule becomes (he brayed his refusal to leave) |
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controlling metaphor
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a symbolic story where the whole poem may be a metaphor for something else
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pun
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play on words
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metonymy
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part of something used to signify the whole
"wagging tongue"=gossip behind bars=in jail |
SYNECHDOCHE (subset of metonomy)
when something closely related with a subject is substituted for it. (all hands on deck is both met. and syn.) (THIS WORD JUST IN FROM THE WHITEHOUSE) |
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apostrophe
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addressing someone or something who isn't there or doesnt understand
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hyperbole
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emphasis w/out literally being true
(the bag weighed a ton) (the bag was heavy) |
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understatement
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says less than is intended
she isn't the prettiest girl on the block (let's just say) |
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paradox
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appears contradicting, but makes sense
-it is in giving that we recieve |
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oxymoron
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two contradicting words used together (jumbo shrimp)
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symbol
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represents something else
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conventional symbol
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recognized by many people to rep. one thing
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literary/contextual symbol
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goes beyond traditional meanings
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allegory
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description restricted to single meaning b/c its events are refferences
(3 litl bears)? |
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didactic poetry
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teach moral/ethical lesson
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siuational irony
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someone who has everything going for them and ends their life (when the obvious no happen)
(someone whos tall thinks they are short) |
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verbal irony
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saying something different from what is meant
(you can bring verbal irony out with sarcasm) |
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dramatic irony
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writer allows readers to know more than characters do
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cosmic irony
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god/fate of human kind
(titanic poem....we think we conquer nature but nature conquers us). |
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satire
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art of ridiculing a folly in order to correct it.
sarah palin played by tina fey |
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ballad
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story that was sung until transcribed (haha taylor swift).
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literary ballad
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imitation by poets of a ballad (obvi...more poetic)
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onomatopoeia
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word that describes sound it denotes
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alliteration
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repeated CONSONANT sounds at the beginning of a word
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assonance
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repeated VOWEL sounds at beginning of a word
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consonance
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repeated CONSONANT sounds in middle of a word
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euphony
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lines that are musically pleasant to the ear
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cacophony
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not nice sounding ...difficult to pronounce
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eye rhyme
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is aSIMILARITY I N SPELLING between words that are PRONOUNCED DIFFERENT and hence, NOT AUDITORY rhyme. An example is the pair slaughter and laughter.
thing thong |
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end rhyme
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rhyme at end of line
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internat rhyme
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at least 1 rhymed word w/in line
"dividing, riding, and sliding" |
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masculine rhyme
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rhymed single syllable words
thong, song |
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feminine rhyme
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stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable
butter |
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exact rhyme
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share same stressed vowel sounds and sounds that follow vowel
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near off/slant rhyme
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Words that SOUND the same but don't exactly rhyme, such as Lover and brother. Or, Fish and promise, won and done, gone and from.
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meter
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rhythmic pattern of stress
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stress(or accent)
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emphasis
(more on one syllable than another) |
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scansion
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measure stress in one line to measure its metrical pattern
Describing the rhythms of poetry by dividing the lines into feet, marking the locations of stressed and unstressed syllables, and counting the syllables. Thus, when we describe the rhythm of a poem, we “scan” the poem and mark the stresses (/) and absences of stress (^) and count the number of feet. |
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rising meter
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unstressed to stressed
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falling meter
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stressed to unstressed
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iambic pentameter
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iambic rhythm (falls into 5 ft)
u / u/ u/ u/ u/ Id like an icecream cone with jimmys please (unstressed stressed) (5 pairs) |
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conceit
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an extended metaphor w/and interesting logic that shapes the meaning of the poem
(going on and on about a fleas signifigance to life) |
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foot
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metrical unit by which a line of poetry is measured usually stressed and 1o 2 unstressed syllables (vertical line seperates foot)
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iamb
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u /
away |
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trochee
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lonely |
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anapest
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u u /
understand |
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dactyl
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/ u u
Miriam |
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spondee
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/ /
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masculine ending
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stressed ending
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feminine ending
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unstressed ending
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caesure
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a pause w/in a line (/)
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end-stopped line
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line with a pause at the end
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enjambment
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running over from one line to another
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stanza
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a unit within a larger poem
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rhyme scheme
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pattern of end rhymes
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couplet
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two lines that usually rhyme and have same meter
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heroic couplet
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rhymed iambic pentameter
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tercet
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3 line stanza
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triplet
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(a tercet) in which ALL THREE LINES RHYME
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terza rima
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three line rhyme scheme
aba bcb dcd etc.... |
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quatrain
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4 line stanza
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Italian/Petarchan sonnet
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2 parts
lst 8 lines abbaabba (turn in middle) ex:the world is not with us last 8 lines varry |
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English/Shakespearean Sonnet
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3 quatrains and a couplet
abab cdcd efef gg |
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villanelle
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19 lines
6 stanzas 5 terecets 1 quatrain line one in final 2 lines |
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sestina
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usually no rhyme
39 lines 6 stanzas concluding envoy |
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envoy
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concluding stanza
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epigram
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brief pointed witty poem Ex:(911)
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limerick
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light and humorous
a 3ft a2ft b3ft b2ft a3ft |
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haiku
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17 syllables
3 unrhymed lines of 5,7, and 5 syllables |
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elegy
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somber poem (lyric)
usually commemerates the dead |
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ode
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serious topic, formal tone (usually) public, apostrophe, patterns, dignified/lofty
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parody
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humorous imitation of another work
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free verse
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no predominant meter, often don't rhyme
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open form
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(same as free verse) avoid suggestion that this kind of poetry lacks all disipline and shape
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