Structure Flashcards
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Verse
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Term used to describe poetic lines composed in a measured rhythmical pattern that are often, but never rhyme
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Prose
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The way we usually write and speak, no rhyme or economy of words
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Stanza
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Section of poem/like a paragraph in prose
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Couplet
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2 lines
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Repetition
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Repeating words lines or ideas to make a point
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Refrain
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A line or group of lines repeated regularly or irregularly
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Blank verse
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Unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter(10 syllables every other syllable is stressed the way Shakespeare writes)
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Rhyme
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Repetition of identical or similar concluding syllables in different words, most often at the end of lines
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Meter
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When a rhythmic pattern of stress recurs in a poem it is called meter
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Rhythm
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Used to refer the recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds in poetry
