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28 Cards in this Set
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Poetry
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Spontaneous burst of emotions
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Poet
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The author of the poem
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Speaker
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The narrator of the poem
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Form
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The appearance of the words on the page
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Line
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A group of words together on one line of the poem
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Stanza
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A group of lines arranged in a
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Couplet
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two line stanza
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Triplet (Tercet)
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three line stanza
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Quatrain
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four line stanza
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Sestet (sextet)
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six line stanza
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Octave
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eight line stanza
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Rhythm
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The beat created by the sounds of the words of the words in a poem
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Meter
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A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
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Foot
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unit of meter
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Iambic
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Unstressed.Stressed
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Trochaic
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Stressed.Unstressed
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Anapestic
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Unstressed.Unstressed.Stressed
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Dactylic
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Stressed.Unstressed.Unstressed
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Monometer
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One foot on a line
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Dimeter
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Two feet on a line
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Trimeter
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Three feet on a line
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Tetrameter
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Four feet on a line
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Pentamenter
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Five feet on a line
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hexameter
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six feet on a line
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Heptameter
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seven feet on a line
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Octometer
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eight feet on a line
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Free Verse
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Does not have any repeating patterns,and does not rhyme
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Blank Verse
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Written in lines of iambic pentameter,but does not use end rhyme.
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