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Vocab 2 Flashcards

1
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The quality of being honest and having strong moral principles

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Integrity

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2
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Regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables

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Meter

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3
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Meter with 5 iambs in each line of a poem

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Iambic pentameter

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4
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Most obvious form of sound repetition in poetry

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Rhyme

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5
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Rhyme in which syllables are exactly alike

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Perfect rhyme

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6
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Rhyme that pairs words that are similar but slightly mismatched in sound

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Slant rhyme

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7
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Rhyme that combines words that look alike but don’t sound alike

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Eye rhyme

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8
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Rhyme that falls at the end of a line

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End rhyme

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9
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Rhyme occurring within a single line of poetry

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Internal rhyme

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10
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When a natural pause comes at the end of the line

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End-stopped

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11
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When the reader must run past the end to find the natural pause

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Enjambment

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12
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A break found within a line of poetry

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Caesura

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13
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Final syllable of a line is unstressed

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Feminine ending

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14
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Final syllable of a line is stressed

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Masculine ending

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15
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An expression that is unique to itself

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Idiom

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16
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Swiftly and easily running

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Scudding

17
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Banged

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Spanged

18
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Unemotional

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Phlegmatic

19
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A disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events.

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Anticlimax

20
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That which restrains

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Manacle

21
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Aggressiveness

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Militancy

22
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Inescapably

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Inextricably

23
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A doctrine by which a state opposes a federal law believed to encroach on its sovereignty

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Interposition

24
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A state’s refusing to enforce a federal law

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Nullification

25
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The art of public speaking

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Rhetoric

26
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Two parallel phrases, clauses, or sentences in which the second reverses the elements of the first, inverting the parallel structure.

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Chiasmus

27
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A rhetorical device that uses syntactical parallelism in 2 adjacent phrases or clauses to emphasize their contrasting meanings.

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Antithesis

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