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| The "science" of versification |
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| Determining the prevailing foot in a line of poety |
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| Language, frequently concentrated, arranged to create an emotional response through meaning, sound, and rhythm. Gives pleasure and information |
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| A metrical unit with 1 accented syllable + 1 or more unaccented syllables. |
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| Stress on syllables as marked in the dictionary |
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| Stress that builds up when line is chanted |
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| Stress for interpretation |
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| Foot of 2 syllables - weak/strong |
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| Foot of 2 syllables - strong/weak |
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| foot of 3 syllables - weak/weak/strong |
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| foot of 3 syllables - strong/weak/weak |
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| 2-word formula: name of foot + number of feet per line |
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| a pair of riming lines (aa) |
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| four lines that rime together (abab) or (abba) |
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| a 14-line poem. Shakespearian or English = 3 quatrains |
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| unrimed iambic pentameter |
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| no regular rime + no regular meter |
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| 5-line poem riming aabba, mostly in anapestic feet |
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| poem meant to be sung; song-like. written to emphasize attractive sound of words. Sonnets are lyrics. |
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| repetition of similar, initial consonant sounds |
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| repetition of similar, internal vowel sounds |
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| lines that end with period or semicolon |
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| lines with comma or no punctuation |
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| words that look like they should rime, but don't |
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| approximate rime, slant rime or imperfect rime |
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| rime on accented syllables: LOVE/DOVE |
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| rime on unaccented syllables: GENDER/BENDER |
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| comparison between 2 unlike things |
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| comparison between 2 unlike things using LIKE or AS |
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| giving inanimate or non-living things or abstractions human qualities or emotions |
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| something that stands for something else |
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