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Termanology Flashcards

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Enjambment

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When a sentence runs over multiple lines till there’s a full stop

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Caesura

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A break or pause using punctuation

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Rhyming couplet

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Two rhymes on lines next to eachother. Usually at end of sonnet

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Sonnet

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14 lines
Rhyming couplet
Love poem

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Free verse

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Has no regular rhyme scheme or rhyme at all

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Blank verse

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Verse with no rhyme
Uses iambic pentameters

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Iambic pentameters

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a line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable

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