Types of Rhyme Flashcards

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Epigram

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brief to the point and witty poem that takes no poetic form

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limerick

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always light and humorous and usually consists of five lines rhyming aabba

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sestina

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thirty-nine lines of any length divided by six six lines and three-line that concludes the stanza called the envoy

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sonnet

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a fourteen-lined poem, penned in iambic pentameter - Italian and Shakespearian

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couplet

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two lines that rhyme and have the same meter

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heroic couplet

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a couplet that is rhymed in iambic pentameter

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stanza

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grouping of lines that usually has a set pattern of meter and rhyme.

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quatrain

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four-lined stanza; most common (aabb, abab, )

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