Poetic Terms Flashcards
1
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Alliteration
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Repetition of initial sounds (Suzy sells seashells down by the seashore)
2
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Assonance
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Repetition of middle vowel sounds (Mad Hatter)
3
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Consonance
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Repetition of end sounds (Chair-Air)
4
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Rhyme Pattern
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Regular pattern of rhyme (AABBCC)
5
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End Rhyme
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Rhyme occurring at the end of the line
6
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Internal Rhyme
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Rhyme occurs in the lines
7
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Slant Rhyme
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When words that aren’t supposed to rhyme do
8
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Stanza
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A group of lines in a poem
9
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Refrain
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Repetition of a stanza, line, phrase or a word
10
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Foot
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2 syllables
11
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Iamb
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Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
12
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Iambic Pentamiter
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5 feet of Iamb
13
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Quatrain
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A 4 line stanza
14
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Couplet
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A stanza of 2 lines
