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Poetry Terms FORM
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English
Undergraduate 1
04/08/2008

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Term
Prosody
Definition
    The art or study of using metrical and rhyming devices in poetry.
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Meter
Definition
    The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.
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Foot
Definition
    A unit of meter (stressed and unstressed syllables)
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Iamb (Iambic)
Definition
    one soft stress followed by a hard stress
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Trochee (Trochaic)
Definition
    one hard stress followed by a soft stress
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Anapest (Anapestic)
Definition
    One hard stress followed by 2 soft stresses
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Dactyl (Dactylic)
Definition
    One hard stress followed by 2 soft stresses
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Spondee (Spondaic)
Definition
    2 hard stresses
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Pyrrhic
Definition
    2 Soft Stresses
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Free Verse
Definition
    No set rhyme, no set meter
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Blank Verse
Definition
    Unrhymed iambic pentameter
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