Form
Categorized by its use of a series of repeated units with the same number of lines
What is stanzaic form?
What is a stanza?
Characterized by its fourteen lines, iambic pentameter, and flexible structure
What is a sonnet?
What a word suggests beyond its basic dictionary definition
What is connotation?
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What is Rihanna?
The internal order made from patterns to make an external shape
What is form?
The basic unit used in scansion or measurement of a verse
What is a foot?
What is an Shakespearean (English) sonnet?
A reference, explicit or implicit, to something in previous literature or history
What is an allusion?
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The arrangement of ideas, images, thoughts, and sentences
What is structure?
A repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines at a fixed position in stanzaic form
What is a refrain?
Characterized by its nineteen lines with five tercets and a quatrain
What is a villanelle?
What is a paradox?
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What is a flamboyance?
Categorized by its traditional pattern applied to the whole poem
What is fixed form?
Any fixed pattern of rhymes characterizing a whole poem
What is rhyme scheme?
Characterized by an octave rhyming abbaabba and a sestet using two or three additional rhymes
What is a Petrarchan (Italian) Sonnet?
A kind of literature that ridicules human folly or vice with the purpose of bringing reform
What is satire?
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What is Scotland?
Categorized by its slight elemental design and informal grouping
What is continuous form?
The regular patterns of accent that underlie metrical verse
What is meter?
A fairly short type of narrative French poetry written in song like stanza form
What is a ballad?
A figure of speech in which some significant aspect or detail of an experience is used to represent the whole experience
The 27th decimal in pi
What is three?