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11/15/2012

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Alexandrine
Definition
Iambic Hexameter (The French's form of Iambic Pentameter)
6 feet, 12 syllables
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Alliteration
Definition
The repetition of speech sounds- sometimes vowels, but usually consonants - in a sequence of nearby words on stressed syllables.
"Dawn goes down today"
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Anapest
Definition
Two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable.
Tennessee. Ten nes see
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Assonance
Definition
The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds.
Crap, daffodil.
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Blank verse
Definition
Consists of unrhymed (blank) iambic pentameter
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Caesura
Definition
A double bar II which indicates a natural pause in the speaking voice. (from the latin word for cut)
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Catalectic
Definition
Metrically incomplete line. A line ending with a incomplete foot. Lón don brídge is fáll ing dówn.
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Consonance
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Repetition of identical or similar consonant sounds.
Diddily dung down idiot.
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Couplet
Definition
Two lines of verse, usually coupled by rhyme. Existed in the English poetry since rhythm entered the language
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Dactyl
Definition
A foot consisting of a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables. Leningrad. Lén in grad.
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Dimeter
Definition
A poem or line with two feet.
Cannon to right of them. (Can non to) (Right of them)
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Enjambment
Definition
Run on lines, a striding over. An incomplete sentence carries onto the next line.
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Elegy
Definition
A formal lament for a dead person
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English Sonnet
Definition
Three Quatrains and a Couplet.
Abab Cdcd Efef gg
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Envoy
Definition
Concluding Stanza, used at the end of Sestina.
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Exact Rhyme
Definition
Correspondance of rhyming sound is exact.
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Eye Rhyme
Definition
Words whose endings are alike, (and were at some point pronounced a like) but now are pronounced differently.
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Organic Form
Definition
Poem that lets the poem discover it's own form, no prescribed form.
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Feminine Rhyme
Definition
Rhyme words in which a stressed syllable is followed by unstressed. Chiming, Rhyming
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Free Verse
Definition
Poetry that makes little or no use of traditional rhyme and meter
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Heptameter
Definition
A line which has seven feet
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Hexameter
Definition
A poem which has six feet
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Heroic couplet
Definition
Closed couplet that was used in a epic poem or in plays became known as heroic.
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iamb
Definition
An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. such as "New Yórk" or "îamb"
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image
Definition
Appeals to the sense, for example a metaphor.
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imperfect rhyme
Definition
Two words which rhyme on on unstressed syllable.
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Internal Rhyme
Definition
Rhyme which appears within a line
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Italian Sonnet
Definition
An octave, turn and sestet.
Abbaabba cdecde
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Masculine Rhyme
Definition
Rhyme that consists of a single stressed syllable.
Man Pan
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Meter
Definition
A set of patterns. If a poem's rhythm is structured into a recurrence of regular (that is equal-units) we call it this.
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Monometer
Definition
A line of one foot.
Thus I
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Octameter
Definition
A line of eight feet.
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Octave
Definition
An eight line unit
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Ode
Definition
the most extensive use of irregular form is to be found in the three types of ode. A prescribed form.
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Onomatopoeia
Definition
A combination of words whose sounds seem to resemble the sound it denotes.
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Pararhyme
Definition
Rhyme in which the stressed vowel sounds differ but are flanked by identical or similar consonants.
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Pentameter
Definition
a line of five feet
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prescribed form
Definition
Poem that follow a form
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pyrrhic
Definition
two successive unstressed or lightly stressed syllables.
of pen
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quatrain
Definition
a stanza of four lines. The most common of English stanza forms.
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rhyme
Definition
the concurrence in two or more lines of the last stressed vowel and of all speech sounds following that vowel.
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rhyme royal
Definition
a seven line iambic pentameter stanza rhymin ababbcc
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rhythm
Definition
a syllabic pattern.
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scansion
Definition
the action or art of scanning a line to determine its devision into metrical feet
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sestet
Definition
a six line unit
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sestina
Definition
the devil.
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Spenserian Stanza
Definition
has 9 lines, the first 8 are iambic pentameter, the last is iamic hexameter. Ababbcbcc
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Slant Rhyme
Definition
off rhyme, differs from perfect rhyme in changing the vowel sound and/or the concluding consonants expected of perfect rhyme.
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Spondee
Definition
Two successive syllable with approximately equal strong stress. Draw Back.
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Sprung Rhythm
Definition
Created by Gerard Manley Hopkins. Each foot in a poem must begin with a stress.
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Stanza
Definition
A grouping of lines set off by space which usually has a pattern of meter or set of lines.
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syllabic
Definition
measure only the number of syllables in a line without regard to the stress.
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tercet
Definition
A stanza of three lines which is usually linked with a single rhyme.
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terza rima
Definition
linked tercet in which the second line of each stanza rhymes with the first and third lines of the next.
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tetrameter
Definition
Four foot
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Trimeter
Definition
three feet
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Trochee
Definition
A stressed followed by an unstressed syllable.
London Bridge is falling down.
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Villanelle
Definition
Horrible french form.
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volta
Definition
the turn in a poem.
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