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1
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iamb

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short-long

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blank verse

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Iambic Pentameter

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2
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quatrain

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group of 4 lines

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prose poem

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poem in paragraph form

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Rhyme scheme of Italian sonnet

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ABBAABBA followed by one of the three (CDCCDC) or (CDCDCD) or (CDECDE)

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5
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heroic couplet

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2 lines of rhyming Iambic Pentameter

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6
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Do not go gentle into that good night is a perfect example of a

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villanelle

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7
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free verse

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no rhyme scheme or rythim

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7
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Villanelle

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5 tersets and a quatrain with refrain and repeating lines

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7
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Dante’s inferno is written in

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terra Rima (3 stanza that rhyme ABA BCB CDC etc)

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amphibrachys

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short-long-short

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trochee

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long-short

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10
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Petrarch

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wrote sonnets to laura

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10
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open form

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free verse

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11
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anapest

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short-short-long

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12
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Dante’s lover from the inferno is?

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Beatrice

13
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Spondee

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long-long

15
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English sonnet is also known as

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Shakespearian sonnet

15
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Who guide Dante through Paradise?

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Beatrice

16
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Dactyl

A

long-short-short

18
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quintain

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group of 5 lines

19
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sestina

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medeval poem with 6 line in each stanza and 6 stanzas followed by an ending called a convoy that is a tervet (also known as a tornado). It uses the same 6 end wards through out the poem

20
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terset

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group of 3 lines

21
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Tanka

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5 7 5 7 7 (syllabes) [an extended haiku]

23
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Itialian sonnet also known as

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Petrarachan sonnet

24
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haiku

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5 7 5 (syllables)

26
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number of lines in a sonnet

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14

27
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Rhyme scheme of English sonnet

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ABAB CDCD EFEF GG

29
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epigram

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Witty, and cultivated by martial

30
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Who guides Dante through the Inferno and Purgatory?

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Vergil

31
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octave

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group of 8 lines

32
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Elegy

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mournful, sad poem

33
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Ballad

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poem that tells a story in song