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| The Latin phrase meaning "seize the day." |
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| Traditionally, a ballad is a song, transmitted orally from generation to generation, that tells a story and that eventually is written down. |
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| Poetry designed to teach an ethical, moral, or religious lesson. |
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| A derogatory term used to describe poetry whose subject is trite and whose rhythm and sounds are monotonously heavy-handed. |
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| A type of lyric poem in which a character (the speaker) addresses a distinct but silent audience imagined to be present in the poem in such a way as to reveal a dramatic situation and, often unintentionally, some aspect of his or her temperament or personality. |
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| A mournful, contemplative lyric poem written to commemorate someone who is dead, often ending in a consolation. |
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| A long narrative poem, told in a formal, elevated style, that focuses on a subject |
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| A brief, pointed, and witty poem that usually makes a satiric or humorous point. |
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| A type of brief poem that expresses the personal emotions and thoughts of a single speaker. It is important to realize, however, that although the lyric is uttered in the first person, the speaker is not necessarily the poet. |
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| A poem that tells a story. |
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| A relatively lengthy lyric poem that often expresses lofty emotions in a dignified style. Odes are characterized by a serious topic. |
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| A humorous imitation of another, usually serious, work. Makes original sound absurd. |
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| A type of fixed form poetry consisting of thirty-six lines of any length divided into six sestets and a three-line concluding stanza called an envoy. The six words at the end of the first sestet's lines must also appear at the ends of the other five sestets, in varying order. |
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| A fixed form of lyric poetry that consists of fourteen lines, usually written in iambic pentameter |
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| AKA Petrarchan sonnet, divided into an octave, which typically rhymes abbaabba |
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| AKA Shakespearean sonnet, organized into three quatrains and a couplet, typically rhymes abab cdcd efef gg |
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| A type of fixed form poetry consisting of nineteen lines of any length divided into six stanzas: five tercets and a concluding quatrain. |
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| When a rhythmic pattern of stresses recurs in a poem, it is called meter. Metrical patterns are determined by the type and number of feet in a line of verse combining the name of a line length with the name of a foot concisely describes the meter of a line. |
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| The emphasis, or stress, given a syllable in pronunciation. |
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| The metrical unit by which a line of poetry is measured. A foot usually consists of one stressed and one or two unstressed syllables. |
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| An iambic foot, which consists of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable, is the most common metrical foot in English poetry. |
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| A sequence of words printed as a separate entity one the page. In poetry, lines are usually measured by the number of feet they contain. |
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| A recurring grouping of two or more verse lines in terms of length, metrical form, and often, rhyme scheme. |
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| A four-line stanza, known as a quatrain, consisting of alternating eight- and six- syllable lines. Usually only the second and fourth lines rhyme. |
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| A term used to describe poetic lines composed in a measured rhythmical pattern, that are often, but not necessarily, rhymed. |
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| consists of verse with end rhyme and usually with a regular meter. |
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| The repetition of identical or similar concluding syllables in different words, most often at the ends of lines. |
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| describes the rhyming of a single-syllable words, such as grade or shade. |
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| consists of a rhymed stressed syllable followed by one or more identical unstressed (butter, clutter |
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| A pause within a line of poetry that contributes to the rhythm of the line |
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| A type of rhetoric in which the second part is syntactically balanced against the first |
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| Two consecutive lines of poetry that usually rhyme and have the same meter. |
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| A poetic line that has a pause at the end. End-stopped lines reflect normal speech patterns and are often marked by punctuation. |
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| In poetry, when one line ends without a pause and continues into the next line for its meaning. This is also called a run-on line. |
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| A term used to refer to the recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds in poetry. |
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| An interlocking three-line rhyme scheme: aba, bcb, cdc, ded, and so on. |
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| A common type of near rhyme that consists of identical consonant sounds preceded by different vowel sounds |
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| Refers to a type of informal diction that reflects casual, conversational language and often includes slang expressions |
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| A type of informational diction. |
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| Repetition at the end of a clause of the word that occurred at the beginning of the clause |
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