Poetic Structure in Pope's Essay on Man Flashcards
1
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antithesis
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a combination of two opposing ideas, usually in the same sentence, to emphasize the contrast between them
2
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heroic couplet
A
two consecutive rhyming lines of iambic pentameter in a poem
3
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meter
A
a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem
4
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parallelism
A
the repetition of similar grammatical structures in different parts of the same sentence or line
