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term applies to many forms of rhythmic expression; reflects intense perceptions; is imaginative; ideas are compressed
What is poetry
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written expression without a regular rhythmic pattern
What is prose
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a unit of poetry; a metrical composition
What is verse
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unrhymed verse with a five beat rhythm (iambic pentameter)
What is blank verse
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pattern of stressed syllables in a poem
What is meter
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a unit of rhythm in verse
What is foot
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a foot consisting of an unaccented syllable and an accented syllable ( )
What is iamb
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internal rhyme – within a line of poetry (or consecutive lines) end rhyme - at the end of lines of a poem slant rhyme – words that almost rhyme; poet substitutes assonance or consonance for true rhyme
What is rhyme
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the pattern of rhyming in a poem
What is rhyme scheme
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a rhythmic pattern based on the natural rhythms, repetitions, and emphases in speech
What is cadence
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two consecutive lines of verse with end rhyme
What is couplet
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a line or group of lines in a poem separated from other groups of lines by white space; a division in a poem that occurs because of a natural pause or at a point where the poet wants to speed up or slow down the poem, shift its tone, change the setting, or introduce a new idea or character
What is stanza
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a four line stanza
What is quatrain
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a five line stanza
What is quintain
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an eight line stanza
What is octave
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a slight but definite pause or break in a line of verse; created by a natural pause or a punctuation mark Ex: Had we but world enough, // and time This coyness, lady, // were no crime. We would sit down, // and think which way To walk, // and pass our long love’s day.
What is caesura
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a reference, usually brief, to a historic or literary work, event, person, or place
What is allusion
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repetition of initial sounds, usually consonants, in neighboring words
What is alliteration
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the repetition of vowel sounds in neighboring words Ex: Rain has fallen all the day Ex: lake, fake – true rhyme lake, fate - assonance
What is assonance
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repetition of final consonant sounds in neighboring words
What is consonance
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sensory response that the language creates in the mind of the reader
What is imagery
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a kind of metaphor (comparison) that uses like or as to compare two unlike things
What is simile
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a comparison in which the poet writes about one thing as if it is something else; A=B, and the qualities of B are transferred to A; a comparison of unlike things
What is metaphor
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a comparison that gives human qualities to an object, animal, idea, or phenomenon
What is personification
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use of a word to imitate a natural sound
What is onomatopoeia
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