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Sound and Sense Flashcards

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Assonance

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The repetition at close intervals of the vowel sounds

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Aubade

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A poem about dawn, a morning love song, or a poem about the parting of lovers at dawn

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Ballad

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A fairly short narrative poem written in a songlike stanza form

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Blank verse

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unrhymed iambic pentameter

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Cacophony

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a harsh discordant unpleasant-sounding choice and arangement of sounds

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Caesura

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a speech pause occuring within a line

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Connotation

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What a word suggests

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Consonance

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The repetition at close intervals of the final consonant sounds

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Continuous form

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That form of a poem in which the lines follow each other without formal grouping

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Couplet

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Two successive lines, usually in the same meter, linked by rhyme

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Dactyl

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A merical foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables

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Dactylic meter

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A metter in which a majority of the feet are dactyls

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Denotation

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The basic definition of a word

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Didactic poetry

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poetry having as a primary purpose to teach

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Dimeter

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A metrical line containing two feet

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Dramatic framework

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The situation whether actual or fictional realist r fanciful in which an author places his or her characters in order to express the theme

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Duple meter

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A meter in which a majority of the feet contain two sylables

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End rhyme

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rhymes that occur at the end of the lines

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End stopped line

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a line that ends with natural speech and punctuation

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English (Shakespearean) sonnet

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sonnet ryming ababcdcdefefgg

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Euphony

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a smooth pleasant sounding arangement of words

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Expected rhythm

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the rhythmic expectation set up by the basic meter of a poem

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Extended figure

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A figure of speech sustained or developed through a considerable number of lines or through a whole poem

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Extrametrical syllables

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extra unaccented syllables added at the beginnings or endings of lines

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feminine rhyme

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repeated accented vowel is in either the second or the third-last syllable of the words involved (ceiling-appealing hurrying-scurrying)

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Figurative Language

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Language employing figures of speech

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Figure of speech

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Saying something in a non-ordinary way

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Fixed form

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any form of a poem in which the length and pattern are prescribed by previous usage or tradition (sonnet, villanelle, …)

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Folk ballad

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poem designed to be sung, composed anonymously, transmitted orally

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Foot

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basic unit of metrical verse

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form

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pattern or shape of a poem

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Free verse

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nonmetrical poetry, basic rhythmis unit is the line, natural pauses, line breaks, etc

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Grammatical pause (caesura)

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a pause introduced into the reading of a line, usually by punctuation

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Heard rhythm

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the actual rhythm of a metrical poem as we hear is when it is read naturally

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Hexameter

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line containing six feet

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36
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Hexameter

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line containing six feet

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37
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hyperbole

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overstatement

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38
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lamb

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a metrical foot consisting of one unaccented syllable followed by one accented syllable

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39
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Iambic meter

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Majority of feet are iambs

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40
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Imagery

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representation through language of sense experience

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41
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Internal rhyme

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One or both rhyme words ocur within the line

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42
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Irony

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Situation involving some kind of discrepancy

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43
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Verbal irony

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say something, meant the opposite

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Dramatic irony

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Author implies a different meaning from that intended by the speaker

45
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Situational irony

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Incongruity between actual circumstances and those that would seem appropriate (or what is anticipated and what actually happens) (PLOT TWIST)

46
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Italian (Petrarchan) sonnet

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sonnet with octave rhyming abbaabba and a sestet cdcdcd or cdecde

47
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Masculine rhyme

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rhyme where the repeated accented vowel is the final syllable (dance-pants or scald-recalled)

48
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Metaphor

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duh

49
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meter

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regular patterns of accent that underlie metrical verse (measurable repetition)

50
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metonymy

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where some significant aspect or detail of an experience is used to represent the whole experience

51
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metrical variations

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variations in meter

52
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monometer

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one foot

53
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octave

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eight line stanza

54
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onomatopoeia

A

BOOM

55
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overstatement

A

an overstatement

56
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oxymoron

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paradox with two successive words

57
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paradox

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statement containing contradictory elements

58
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paradoxical situation

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situation containing contradictory elements

59
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paradoxical statement (verbal paradox)

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paradox that is found to be true

60
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paraphrase

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restatement

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pentameter

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five feet in one line

62
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personification

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you should know this

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Petrarchan sonnet

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Italian sonnet

64
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phonetic intensive

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a word whose sound suggests its meaning (not onomatopea)

65
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prose meaning

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poems total meaning that can be separated out and expressed through paraphrase

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prose poem

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short composition having the intentions of poetry but written in prose instead of verse

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quatrain

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four line stanza

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quatrain

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four line stanza

69
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refrain

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a repeated word, phrase, line or group of lines

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rhetorical pause

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natural pause, unmarked by punctuation

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rhetorical poetry

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poetry using artificially eloquent language

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rhetorical stress

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stressing of words or syllables to emphasize meaning or structure

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rhyme

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repetition of the accented vowel

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rhyme scheme

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fixed pattern of rhymes

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rhythm

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wavelike recurrence of motion or sound

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run on line

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a line that has no natural speech pause at its end

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sarcasm

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bitter or cutting speech

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satire

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a kind of literature that ridicules human folly

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Scansion

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the process of measuring metrical verse that is of marking accented and unaccented syllables

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sentimental poetry

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poetry that attempts to manipulate the reader’s emotions in order to achieve a greater emotional response

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sestet

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six line stanza

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sestet

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six line stanza

83
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simile

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you should know this

84
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sonnet

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fixed form of fourteen lines

85
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spondee

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foot consisting of two syllables equally accented (true-blue)

86
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stanza

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a group of lines whose metrical pattern is repeated throughout a poem

87
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stanzaic form

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the form of a poem written in a series of units having the same number of lines and usually other characteristics in common

88
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stress

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same as Accent

89
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structure

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the internal organization of a poems content

90
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substitution

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replacement of the expected metrical foot by a different one

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syllabic verse

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verse measured by the number of syllables rather than the number of feet per line

92
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symbol

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symbol

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synecdoche

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a part is used for the whole

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synesthesia

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presentation of one sense experience in terms usually associated with another sensation

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tercet

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three line stanza

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terza rima

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aba bcb cdc

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tetrameter

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four feet

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theme

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central idea

99
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tone

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speakers attitude

100
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total meaning

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total experience communicated by a poem

101
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trimeter

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three feet

102
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triple meter

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a meter in which a majority of the feet contain three syllables

103
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trochaic meter

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majority of feet are trochees

104
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trochee

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foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by one unaccented syllable

105
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truncation

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omission of an unaccented syllable and either end of a line

106
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understatement

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understatement

107
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verse

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metrical langrage (opposite of prose)

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villanelle

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nineteen line fixed form consisting of five tercets rhymed aba concluding abaa

109
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verse

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metrical language (opposite of prose)

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