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What is a stanza?

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A stanza is paragraph or group of lines

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What is meter

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Meter is a pattern of stressed/ unstressed syllables

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What is an iambic

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An iambic is pattern of unstressed (U) stressed (/)

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What is iambic pentameter?

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Iambic pentameter is when you have 5 sets of unstressed, stressed syllables (10 syllables total)

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What is Rhythm?

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Rhythm is a beat created by the sound of the word in the poem.

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What is free verse?

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Free verse is when there is no rhythm, or rhyme.

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What is blank verse?

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Blank verse is when iambic pentameter is used but does not end rhyme

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What is rhyme?

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Words that sound alike

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What is End rhyme?

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End rhyme is when the word at the end of the line rhymes

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What is Internal rhyme?

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Internal rhyme is when the middle of the word rhymes

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What is near rhyme/ slant rhyme?

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Near rhyme/ slant rhyme is imperfect rhyme, same vowel or consonant

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What is Rhyme scheme?

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Rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhyme, usally end rhyme

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What is an onomatopoeia?

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An onomatopoeia is when a word creates a sound ex: Buzz

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What is alliteration?

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Alliteration is when consonant sound is repeated at the beginning of words

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What is assonance?

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Assonance is a repeats vowel

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What is a consonance?

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A consonance is a repeated sound anywhere in the word

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What is refrain?

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Refrain is a word or sound repeated in the poem

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What are the types of poems?

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There’s:
Narrative: tells a story
Concrete: shaped poem
Lyric- a short poem
Conquain: 5 lines with 22 syllables
Haiku: 3 lines; line 1 & 3- 5 syllables, line 2- 7 syllables

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What are the types of sonnets?

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A Shakespearian sonnet: 4 stanzas; 3 4 lined stanzas and 1 2 line stanza, uses a specific rhyme scheme ( rhyme scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GG) and usually uses iambic pentameter
Italian sonnet:

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What are the types of meter

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Iambic- unstressed, stressed
Trochatic- stressed unstressed
Anapaestic- unstressed, unstressed, stressed
Dactylic- stressed, unstressed, unstressed

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What is a foot?

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A foot is a unit of meter, it has 2-3 syllables: 1 stressed and 1+ unstressed

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