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| repetition of vowel sounds |
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| repetition of initial consonant sounds |
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| repetition of final consonant sounds |
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| rhyme involving only 1 syllable |
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| rhyme involved 2+ syllables |
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| 1+ rhyming words within line |
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| slant (half, near, approximate) rhyme |
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| words with any kind of sound similarity, close or remote |
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| fixed pattern of repeating words, phrases, lines, or groups of lines |
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| identifying characteristic of written language that we can tap our feet to |
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| unit of meter consisting normally of 1 accented and 2 unaccented syllables, occasionally no unaccented syllables |
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| natural rise and fall of language |
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| 1 unstressed syllable followed by 1 stressed |
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| 1 stressed syllable followed 1 unstressed |
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| 2 unstressed syllables followed by 1 stressed |
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| 1 stressed syllable followed by 2 unstressed |
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| unrhymed iambic pentameter (ex. Shakespeare) |
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| end of line corresponds with natural speech pause |
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| sense of a line moves on without pause into the next one |
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| grammatical or rhetorical pauses within lines |
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| except for line arrangement, no different than prose |
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| depends entirely on ordinary prose rhythms |
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| draws attention to some sounds because they depart from the regular meter |
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| replacing the regular foot with a different one |
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| extra syllable at beginning or end of line |
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| omission of unaccented syllable at either end of a line |
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| process of defining metrical form of poem |
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| lines follow each other without formal grouping, breaks are only dictated by units of meaning (as in prose paragraphs) |
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| series of stanzas (repeated units with the same number of lines), usually of same pattern and rhyme scheme |
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| traditional pattern, applies to whole poem (sonnet, ballade, etc.) |
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| conluding 2 lines in sonnet: abab cdcd efef gg, couplet = gg |
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