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Assonance

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The repetition at close intervals of the vowel sounds

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Aubade

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A poem about dawn, a morning love song, or a poem about the parting of lovers at dawn

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Ballad

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A fairly short narrative poem written in a songlike stanza form

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Blank verse

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unrhymed iambic pentameter

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Cacophony

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a harsh discordant unpleasant-sounding choice and arangement of sounds

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Caesura

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a speech pause occuring within a line

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Connotation

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What a word suggests

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Consonance

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The repetition at close intervals of the final consonant sounds

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Continuous form

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That form of a poem in which the lines follow each other without formal grouping

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Couplet

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Two successive lines, usually in the same meter, linked by rhyme

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Dactyl

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A merical foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables

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Dactylic meter

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A metter in which a majority of the feet are dactyls

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Denotation

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The basic definition of a word

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Didactic poetry

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poetry having as a primary purpose to teach

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Dimeter

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A metrical line containing two feet

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Dramatic framework

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The situation whether actual or fictional realist r fanciful in which an author places his or her characters in order to express the theme

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Duple meter

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A meter in which a majority of the feet contain two sylables

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End rhyme

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rhymes that occur at the end of the lines

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End stopped line

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a line that ends with natural speech and punctuation

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English (Shakespearean) sonnet

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sonnet ryming ababcdcdefefgg

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Euphony

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a smooth pleasant sounding arangement of words

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Expected rhythm

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the rhythmic expectation set up by the basic meter of a poem

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Extended figure

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A figure of speech sustained or developed through a considerable number of lines or through a whole poem

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Extrametrical syllables

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extra unaccented syllables added at the beginnings or endings of lines

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feminine rhyme
repeated accented vowel is in either the second or the third-last syllable of the words involved (ceiling-appealing hurrying-scurrying)
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Figurative Language
Language employing figures of speech
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Figure of speech
Saying something in a non-ordinary way
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Fixed form
any form of a poem in which the length and pattern are prescribed by previous usage or tradition (sonnet, villanelle, ...)
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Folk ballad
poem designed to be sung, composed anonymously, transmitted orally
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Foot
basic unit of metrical verse
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form
pattern or shape of a poem
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Free verse
nonmetrical poetry, basic rhythmis unit is the line, natural pauses, line breaks, etc
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Grammatical pause (caesura)
a pause introduced into the reading of a line, usually by punctuation
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Heard rhythm
the actual rhythm of a metrical poem as we hear is when it is read naturally
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Hexameter
line containing six feet
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Hexameter
line containing six feet
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hyperbole
overstatement
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lamb
a metrical foot consisting of one unaccented syllable followed by one accented syllable
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Iambic meter
Majority of feet are iambs
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Imagery
representation through language of sense experience
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Internal rhyme
One or both rhyme words ocur within the line
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Irony
Situation involving some kind of discrepancy
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Verbal irony
say something, meant the opposite
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Dramatic irony
Author implies a different meaning from that intended by the speaker
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Situational irony
Incongruity between actual circumstances and those that would seem appropriate (or what is anticipated and what actually happens) (PLOT TWIST)
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Italian (Petrarchan) sonnet
sonnet with octave rhyming abbaabba and a sestet cdcdcd or cdecde
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Masculine rhyme
rhyme where the repeated accented vowel is the final syllable (dance-pants or scald-recalled)
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Metaphor
duh
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meter
regular patterns of accent that underlie metrical verse (measurable repetition)
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metonymy
where some significant aspect or detail of an experience is used to represent the whole experience
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metrical variations
variations in meter
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monometer
one foot
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octave
eight line stanza
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onomatopoeia
BOOM
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overstatement
an overstatement
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oxymoron
paradox with two successive words
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paradox
statement containing contradictory elements
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paradoxical situation
situation containing contradictory elements
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paradoxical statement (verbal paradox)
paradox that is found to be true
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paraphrase
restatement
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pentameter
five feet in one line
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personification
you should know this
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Petrarchan sonnet
Italian sonnet
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phonetic intensive
a word whose sound suggests its meaning (not onomatopea)
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prose meaning
poems total meaning that can be separated out and expressed through paraphrase
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prose poem
short composition having the intentions of poetry but written in prose instead of verse
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quatrain
four line stanza
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quatrain
four line stanza
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refrain
a repeated word, phrase, line or group of lines
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rhetorical pause
natural pause, unmarked by punctuation
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rhetorical poetry
poetry using artificially eloquent language
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rhetorical stress
stressing of words or syllables to emphasize meaning or structure
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rhyme
repetition of the accented vowel
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rhyme scheme
fixed pattern of rhymes
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rhythm
wavelike recurrence of motion or sound
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run on line
a line that has no natural speech pause at its end
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sarcasm
bitter or cutting speech
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satire
a kind of literature that ridicules human folly
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Scansion
the process of measuring metrical verse that is of marking accented and unaccented syllables
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sentimental poetry
poetry that attempts to manipulate the reader's emotions in order to achieve a greater emotional response
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sestet
six line stanza
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sestet
six line stanza
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simile
you should know this
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sonnet
fixed form of fourteen lines
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spondee
foot consisting of two syllables equally accented (true-blue)
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stanza
a group of lines whose metrical pattern is repeated throughout a poem
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stanzaic form
the form of a poem written in a series of units having the same number of lines and usually other characteristics in common
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stress
same as Accent
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structure
the internal organization of a poems content
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substitution
replacement of the expected metrical foot by a different one
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syllabic verse
verse measured by the number of syllables rather than the number of feet per line
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symbol
symbol
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synecdoche
a part is used for the whole
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synesthesia
presentation of one sense experience in terms usually associated with another sensation
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tercet
three line stanza
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terza rima
aba bcb cdc
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tetrameter
four feet
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theme
central idea
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tone
speakers attitude
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total meaning
total experience communicated by a poem
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trimeter
three feet
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triple meter
a meter in which a majority of the feet contain three syllables
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trochaic meter
majority of feet are trochees
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trochee
foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by one unaccented syllable
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truncation
omission of an unaccented syllable and either end of a line
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understatement
understatement
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verse
metrical langrage (opposite of prose)
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villanelle
nineteen line fixed form consisting of five tercets rhymed aba concluding abaa
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verse
metrical language (opposite of prose)

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