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Title: Poetry

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Total Flash Cards: 13

Created: 04/20/2010 19:15:54

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Term
End Rhyme
 Definition
Occurs at the end of lines of poetry
Term
Internal Rhyme
 Definition
Occurs within a line of poetry
Term
Slant Rhyme
 Definition
When a rhyme is not quite identical
Term
Rhythm
 Definition

pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry

/ = stressed

U = unstressed
Term
Foot
 Definition
smallest repeated pattern of / U
Term
Meter
 Definition
number of "feet" per line
Term
Foot and Meter
 Definition
kind of rhythm a poem has
Term
Iambic
 Definition
U /
Term
Anapestic
 Definition
U U /
Term
Trochaic
 Definition
/ U
Term
Dactylic
 Definition
/ U U
Term
Spondaic
 Definition
/ /
Term
Pyrrhic
 Definition
U U