Terminology

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Alliteration

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Repetition of consonant sounds at begin inning of words.

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Allegory

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Symbolic narrative with details that imply a secondary meaning. Often takes form of a story.

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Anapest

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Two unaccounted syllables followed by an accented one e.g. com-pre-HEND

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Assonance

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Repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose

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Blank verse

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Line of poetry in unrhymed iambic pentameter

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Caesura

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Strong pause within a line of verse

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Closed form

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Regularity and consistence in such elements as rhyme, line length and metrical pattern

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Couplet

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A pair of rhymes lines that may or may not constitute a separate stanza in a poem

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Dactyl

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A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones e.g. FLUT-ter-ing

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Elegy

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The lyric poem that laments the dead

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Elision

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The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry

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Enjambment

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A run-oh line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carried over from one line into the next

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Epigram

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A brief witty poem, often satirical

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Falling meter

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Poetic meters such as trochaic and dactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.

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Foot

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A metrical unit composed of stressed and unstressed syllables

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Free verse

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Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme. The verse is free in not being bound by earlier poetic conventions requiring poems to adhere to an explicit and identifiable meter and rhyme scheme in a firm such as the sonnet or ballad

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Iamb

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An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one

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Lyric poem

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Poem characterised by brevity, compression, and expression of feeling

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Meter

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The measured pattern of rhythmic accents in poems

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Metonymy

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A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea

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Octet

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An wiggling unit in a stanza

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Ode

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A long, stately poem in stanzas of varied length, meter, and form

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Open form

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A type of structure or form in poetry characterised by freedom form regularity and consistence in such elements as rhyme, line length, metrical pattern, and overall poetic structure

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Pyrrhic

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A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables

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Quatrain

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4 line stanza in a poem, first 4 lines and 2nd 4 lines in a Petrarchan sonnet

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Rhythm

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The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse

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Rising meter

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Poetic meters such as iambic and anapestic that move or ascend from an unstressed to a stressed syllable

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Sestet

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A six line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem

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Sestina

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A poem of 39 lines and written in iambic pentameter. It’s six line stanza repeat in an intricate and prescribed order the final word in each of the first six lines

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Spondee

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A metricalfoot represented by two stressed syllables, such as KNICK-KNACK

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Synecdoche

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A figure of speech in which a part is substituted for the whole

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Syntax

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The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue

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Tercet

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3 line stanza

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Trochee

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An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one e.g. FOOT-ball

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Villanelle

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A nineteen line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition. The first and third lines alternate throughout the poem, which is structured in six stanzas, five tercets and a concluding quatrain

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Juxtaposition

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Two things being seen of placed clod together with contrasting effect