Poetry Flashcards
1
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poetry without a regular meter or a rhyme scheme
A
Free Verse
2
Q
a humorous five-lined poem with a specific form: aabba; lines 1,2, and 5 are longer than 3 and 4
A
Limerick
3
Q
a kind of rhythmic, compressed language that uses figures of speech and imagery designed as an appeal to emotion and imagination
A
Poetry
4
Q
a group of words repeated at intervals in a poem, song, or speech
A
Refrain
5
Q
the repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following the in words close together in a poem
A
Rhyme
6
Q
a musical quality produced by the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables or by the repetition of certain other sound patterns
A
Rhythm
7
Q
the voice talking in a poem
A
Speaker
8
Q
in a poem a group of consecutive lines that form a single unit
A
Stanza
