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| The repetition of identical or similar consonant sounds, normally at the beginning of words. |
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| The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds. |
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| A four-line stanza rhymed abcb with four feet in lines one and three and three feet in lines two and four. |
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| Unrhymed iambic pentameter |
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| A metrical foot of three syllables, in accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables. |
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| A line with a pause at the end. Line that ends with any sort of punctuation. |
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| Poetry which is not written in a traditional meter but is still rhythmical. |
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| Two end-stopped iambic pentameter lines rhymed aa, bb, cc with the thought usually completed in the two-line unit. |
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| A line containing 6 feet. |
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| A two-syllable foot with an unaccented syllable follow by an accented syllable. |
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| Rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than at the end. |
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| The use of words whose sound suggests their meaning. |
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| A line containing five feet. |
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| A seven-line stanza of iambic pentameter rhymed ababcc, used by Chaucer and other medieval poets. |
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| Normally a fourteen-line iambic pentameter poem. |
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| Usually a repeated grouping of three of more lines with the same meter and rhyme scheme. |
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| A three-line stanza rhymed aba, bcb, cdc. |
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| That which goes before, especially the word, phrase, or clause to which a pronoun refers. |
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| A group of words containing a subject and its verb that may or may not be a complete sentence. |
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| The omission of a word or several words necessary for a complete construction that is still understandable. |
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| The mood of a verb that gives an order. |
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| To restrict or limit the meaning. |
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| The structure of a sentence. |
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| A sentence grammatically complete only at the end. |
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| A similar grammatical structure within a sentence or within a paragraph. |
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