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Trochiac tetrameter

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4 feet of one stressed syllable and one unstressed syllable

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Volta

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Shift; in a Petrarchan sonnet, occurs at the 9th line

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Octave

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Stanza of 8 lines

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Hyperbole

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Exaggeration for effect

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Allusion

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Historical or literary reference to something outside the work

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Shakespearean sonnet

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14 lines; rhyme scheme= abab, cdcd, Efef, gg

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Sestina

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6 sestets, 1 tercet (envoy), lines end in same 6 words, different order

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Petrarchan sonnet

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14 lines; rhyme scheme=abba, abba, Cde, Ced (varied)

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Archetype

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Universal character, symbol, pattern

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Lyric

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“Spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings..recollected in tranquility”

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Internal rhyme

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Rhyme within lines of poetry

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Iambic pentameter

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5 feet of one unstressed syllable and one stressed syllable

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Allegory

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Characters, setting, and story have secondary, symbolic meanings

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Free verse

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May rhyme, but is not bound by consistent meter

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Epistolary novel

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Story told by a series of letters

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Envoy

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Short concluding stanza; serves as dedication or goodbye

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Dramatic irony

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Audience knows more than the character does

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Comic relief

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Humorous scene that alleviates tension in an otherwise serious work

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Catharsis

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Purgation of pity and fear

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Tetrameter

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4 feet per line

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Bildungsroman

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Novel of formation; traces the education of the hero from youth to experience

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Blank verse

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Unrhymed iambic pentameter

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Sonnet

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Lyric poem of 14 lines

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Alliteration

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Repetition of beginning sounds

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Metadrama

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A play that features another play as part of its plot

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