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| repetition of initial sounds |
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| repetition of internal vowel sounds |
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| unrhymed iambic pentameter |
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| balanced, rhythmic flow of poetry |
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| elaborate or exaggerated metaphor; ingenious or witty thought |
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| associations or implications that go beyond the literal meaning of a word |
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| two consecutive rhyming lines, usually with the same meter |
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| poetic line that has a pause at the end, usually marked by punctuation |
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| when one line ends without a pause and continues into the next line for its meaning; aka run-on line |
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| long, narrative poem, told in a formal, elevated style with a serious subject |
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| language that is smooth and musically pleasant to the ear; literally "good sound" |
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| 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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| one unstressed, one stressed ("away") |
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| one stressed, one unstressed (lovely) |
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| two unstressed, one stressed (understand) |
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| one stressed, two unstressed (desperate) |
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| one unstressed, one stressed syllable |
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| specified unit such as a foot or a line |
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| repetition of identical or similar concluding syllables in different words, usually at the end of a line |
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| (type of rhyme) - a rhymed stressed syllable followed by one or more identical unstressed syllables (butter, clutter) |
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| type of rhyme - places at least one of the rhymed words within the line (dividing and gliding and sliding) |
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| rhyming of single-syllable words (grade,shade); also in rhyming words of more than one syllable when the same sound occurs in the final stressed syllable |
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| process of measuring the stresses in a line of verse in order to determine the metrical pattern of the line |
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| fixed form of lyric poetry that consists of fourteen lines, usually written in iambic pentameter |
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| Italian/Petrarchan sonnet |
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| divided into an octave, usually abbaabba, and a sestet usually cdcdcd, cdecde, cdccdcl octave presents a situation and sestet comments or resolves |
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| divided into three quatrains and a couoplet, abab cdcd efef gg |
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| metrical foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by one unaccented (barter) |
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| turn in the argument or mood of a sonnet; 9th line in Italian, couplet in English |
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