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The dictionary definition.
What is denotation?
100
metrical language
What is verse?
100
repetition of initial consonant sounds.
What is alliteration?
100
U / U / U /
What is iambic trimeter?
100
a group of lines whose metrical pattern is repeated.
What is stanza?
200
the type of rhythm you can tap your foot to
What is meter?
200
the wave like occurrence of motion or sound
What is meter?
200
repetition of vowel sounds.
What is assonance?
200
/UU /UU /UU /UU /UU /UU
What is dactylic hexameter?
200
14 lines of iambic pentameter.
What is a sonnet?
300
the meaning that is implied by the word
What is connotation?
300
the first unit of measurement in verse.
What is a foot?
300
a combination of assonance and consonance.
What is rhyme?
300
U/ U/ U/ U/ U/ U/ U/
What is iambic heptameter?
300
a short musical writing that expresses personal feeling.
What is lyric poem?
400
a mournful or melancholy poem
What is elegy?
400
the essential element of all music
What is repetition?
400
non metrical language.
What is prose?
400
/ /
What is a spondaic foot?
400
a long, narrative poem that recounts the deeds of a hero and expresses the value of a nation.
What is an epic?
500
iambic pentameter, unrhymed
What is blank verse?
500
not really verse because it has no meter.
What is free verse?
500
a word that sounds like the sound.
What is onomatopoeia?
500
a stanza with 5 lines
What is a cinquain?
500
verse that is written to be spoken by characters
What is dramatic poetry?
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