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What is anaphora

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Repetition of words or words at the beginning of 2 or more successive verses clauses or sentences

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Assonance

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The repetition of cowl sounds followed by different consonant s in 3 or more stressed syllables

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Ballad

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A narrative composed of quatrains

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Blank verse

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Unrhymed iambic pentameter

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Couplet

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A pair of rhyming lines usually of the same length and meter

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Dramatic monologue

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A poem in which a character reveals himself or herself by speaking to a silent listener

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Foot

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A measured combination of heavy and light stresses

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Hyperbole

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Deliberate execrations or over statements

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Iambic meter

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A line of verse with five metrical feet

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Imagery

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The descriptive or figurative language used in literature to create word pictures

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Meter

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A poems rhythmical pattern

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Octave

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a repeated group of 8 lines that often share pattern of ruthenium and rhyme

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Petrarchan sonnet

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Consists of an active an sestet

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Rhyme

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The repetition of identical concluding syllables in different words

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Double rhyme scheme

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Rhyming words of two syllables in which the first is accented

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Triple rhyme

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Rhyming words of three or more syllables in which any syllables but at the last is accented

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Eye rhyme

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Words that seem to rhyme because they are spelled identically

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Slant rhymed

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A near rhyme in which the concluding consonant sounds are identical

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Rhyme scheme

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The pattern of rhyme usually indicated by assigning a letter of the Alphabet to each rhyme at end

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Sestet

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Six line sonnet

21
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Soliloquy

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A characters personal reflections about their own thought or feelings

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Sonnet

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A poem written in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme

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Stanza

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A group final bed forming the basic reciting material unit in s poem or a verse

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Volta

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The turning point a Petrarchan sonnet usually occurring between the octave tabs the sestet

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What is alliteration

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The repetition of initial consonant sounds

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