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| 3262222151 | Open form poetry | contains a lack of pattern where the content creates the form. | 0 | |
| 3262296736 | Free Verse | Poetry not tied to any pattern. Has no rhyme or meter. | 1 | |
| 3262304141 | Prose Poetry | is poetry written in prose instead of using verse but preserving poetic qualities such as heightened imagery, parataxis and emotional effects. | 2 | |
| 3262319223 | Closed Form Poetry | Closed form poetry, also known as fixed form, consists of poems that follow patterns of lines, meter, rhymes and stanzas | 3 | |
| 3262319224 | Blank Verse | unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter | 4 | |
| 3262320736 | Rhyme scheme | The pattern of rhyme, usually indicated by assigning a letter of the alphabet to each rhyme at the end of a line of poetry. | 5 | |
| 3269040440 | Iambic Pentameter | an unstressed stressed foot.The most natural and common kind of meter in English; it elevates speech to poetry. | 6 | |
| 3269040441 | Foot/ Metrical foot | a single unit of measurement that is repeated within a line of poetry | 7 | |
| 3563461035 | Meter | Amount of feet | 8 | |
| 3269041552 | Monometer | 1 foot | 9 | |
| 3269041553 | Dimeter | 2 feet | 10 | |
| 3269042337 | Trimeter | 3 feet | 11 | |
| 3269043874 | Metrical feet Types | Iambic Pentameter: Unstressed stressed US Trochee: Stressed Unstressed SU Anapest: Unstressed unstressed stressed UUS Dactyl: stressed unstressed unstressed. SUU Spondee: Stressed Stressed SS Pyrrhic: Unstressed Unstressed UU | 12 | |
| 3269051169 | Common Meter or hymn measure: Iambic tetrameter alternating with iambic trimeter | iambic tetrameter alternating with iambic trimeter. | 13 | |
| 3269061746 | Stanza | Group of lines that form the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem. | 14 | |
| 3269064422 | Stanza Types | Couplet: Two successive lines with rhyming at the end. Heroic couplet: two successive rhyming lines of iambic pentameter; the second line is usually end-stopped. Sestet: A six-line stanza or unit of poetry. Octave: The first eight lines of an Italian or Petrarchan sonnet, unified by rhythm, rhyme, and topic. | 15 | |
| 3269075323 | Scanscion | the action of scanning a line of verse to determine its rhythm. | 16 | |
| 3269084267 | Prosody | The rhythm, stress, and intonation of speech. examples i WANT the red car I want the red car i want the RED car i want the red CAR | 17 | |
| 3269084268 | Lyric Poem | Poem where a single speaker expresses personal thoughts and feelings. | 18 | |
| 3269084935 | Sonnet | A closed form consisting of fourteen lines of rhyming iambic pentameter. | 19 | |
| 3269086679 | Volta | The "turning" point of a Petrarchan sonnet, usually occurring between the octave and the sestet. | 20 | |
| 3269086680 | Conceit | expression in writing or speech; an elaborate metaphor | 21 | |
| 3269088118 | Italian or Petrarchan sonnet | 8 lines (the "octave") and 6 lines (the "sestet") of rhyming iambic pentameter, with a turning or "volta" at about the 8th line. | 22 | |
| 3269088119 | Spenserian Sonnet | A sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee. | 23 | |
| 3269089331 | Elizabethan/ Shakespearean sonnet | a sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter | 24 | |
| 3269089332 | Alliteration | Repetition of identical consonant (non-vowels) sounds. | 25 | |
| 3269089333 | Consonance | the partial or total identity of consonants in words whose main vowels differ. part or all of the consonants in words have the same sound, but where the main vowels differ. Example: shadow meadow; pressed, passed; sipped, supped. Owen uses this "impure rhyme" to convey the anguish of war and death. | 26 | |
| 3269090054 | Assonance | Repetition of identical vowel sounds in different words in close proximity. Example: deep green sea. | 27 | |
| 3269090055 | Onomatopoeia | A blending of consonant and vowel sounds designed to imitate or suggest the activity being described. Example: buzz, slurp. | 28 | |
| 3269090924 | End-stopped line | line ending in a pause and usually with a period or semicolon. | 29 | |
| 3269090925 | Enjambent | A line having no end punctuation but running over to the next line. | 30 | |
| 3269091726 | Caesura | A short but definite pause used for effect within a line of poetry. Carpe diem poetry: "seize the day." Poetry concerned with the shortness of life and the need to act in or enjoy the present. | 31 | |
| 3269091727 | Internal Rhyme | An exact rhyme (rather than rhyming vowel sounds, as with assonance) within a line of poetry: "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary." | 32 | |
| 3269092328 | Refrain | repeated word or series of words in response or counterpoint to the main verse, as in a ballad. | 33 | |
| 3269092329 | Apostrophe | Speaker in a poem addresses a person not present or an animal, inanimate object, or concept as though it is a person. Example: Wordsworth--"Milton! Thou shouldst be living at this hour / England has need of thee" | 34 | |
| 3269092330 | Anaphora | Repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of a line throughout a work or the section of a work. | 35 | |
| 3269095175 | Synaesthesia | A rhetorical figure that describes one sensory impression in terms of a different sense, or one perception in terms of a totally different or even opposite feeling. Example: "darkness visible" "green thought" (cross blending the senses) | 36 | |
| 3269095176 | Chiasmus | Chiasmus is a "crossing" or reversal of two elements; antimetabole, a form of chiasmus, is the reversal of the same words in a grammatical structure | 37 | |
| 3562676415 | rhyme scheme | pattern of rhyming at the end of every line | 38 |
