Poetry Terminology Flashcards

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Mid-line pause

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Caesura

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Two line verse

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Couplet

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Unit of poetic meter containing one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable

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Iambic

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Change in structure of sentence to place emphasis on opening sentence element

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End-focus

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5
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Where rhyming sound occurs within line of verse

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Internal rhyme

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Lines of poetry where the rhyme is on every other line

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Alternate rhyme

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