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45 Cards in this Set
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Foot
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unit of measure
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Meter
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Metrical feet; stressed sylables in a line
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Iambic
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US US US
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Trochaic
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SU SU SU
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Anapestic
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UUS UUS
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Dactylic
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SUU SUU
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Amphibraic
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USU USU
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Spondee and Pyrrhic
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SS UU SS UU
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Line lengths
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Syllables per line
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End-stopped
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punctuation at the end
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Enjambement
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no pause at end of line
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Caesura
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Main pause within a line
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Masculine Rhyme
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last accented syllable
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Feminine Rhyme
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not-last accented
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Sprung or slant rhyme
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eye-symmetry
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Sight Rhyme
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Looks like it should rhyme, doesn't (ie good and food)
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Internal rhyme
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rhyme within a line
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the closer the rhyme...
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the stronger it is
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Blank Verse
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Iambic Pentameter, unrhymed, Shakespeare
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Couplet
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Two rhymed lines, thought complete in second
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Tercet
-Terza rima -Haiku |
Three rhymed lines
-ABA BCB CDC -17 syllables, 5-7-5, no stops or rhymes, 3 lines |
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Quatrain
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-ballad(XAXA)
-elegy (ABAB) |
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Sextain
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6 line stanza
-sestet is the last 6 lines of an Italian sonnet |
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Rime Royal
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7 lines (ABABBCC)
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Ottava rima
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octave- italian sonnet, 8 lines
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Spenserian stanza
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iambic pent. except last line
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free verse
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no rhyme scheme or pattern
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ballad stanza
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4 iambic, 3 and 4 feet
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narrative poetry
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tells a story
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dramatic
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plays in poetic form, shakes
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lyric
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emotion rather than story
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folk ballad
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romantic theme, simple language, short simple narrative
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literary ballad
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skilled craftsman form
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didactic verse
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teaches a lesson, satire
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elegy
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lyric expressing grief at death
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ode
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long lyric, formal, commemoration or an event
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epic
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really long
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hyperbole
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exaggeration for effect
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antithesis
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figure of speech, two contrasting ideas
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apostrophe
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addresses the dead as though living
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metonymy
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change of name
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irony
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opposite of what is meant
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climax
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grouping of words to lead from less to most important
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paradox
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seemingly contradictory statement, really true
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parallelism
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repetition in different words for effect
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