poetry terms Flashcards
1
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a popular narrative song passed down orally
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ballad
2
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a pause, usually near the middle of a line of verse, usually indicated by punctuation or by a grammatical boundary, suave as a phrase of clause.
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caesura
3
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a poem of mourning, usually about someone who has died. a eulogy is great praise or commendation, a laudatory speech, often about someone who has died.
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elegy
4
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the continuation of the sense and grammatical construction from one line of poetry to the next
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enjambment
5
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two lines of verse, usually in the same meter, with the same end-rhymes
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couplet
6
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normally a fourteen-line iambic pentameter poem
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sonnet
7
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a nineteen-line poem divided into five tercets and a final quatrain, and uses only two ryhmes
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villanelle
