| ALEXANDRINE: |
a line of verse having 12 syllables.
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| ALLITERATION: |
when two or more words begin with the same sound.
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| ANAPEST: |
a three-syllable foot in which the greatest
stress falls on the final syllable.
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| ASSONANCE: |
the repetition of vowel sounds with varying
consonant sounds.
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| BLANK
VERSE: |
poetry in unrhymed iambic pentameter.
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| CAESURA: |
a pause indicated by a punctuation mark like
a comma or full stop.
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| CONSONANCE: |
when the same consonant sound is repeated.
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| COUPLET: |
a pair of rhyming lines. Open couplets continue
the sentence from one line to another. Closed
couplets complete a sentence in two lines.
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| DACTYL: |
a three-syllable foot with the strongest stress
on the first syllable.
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| ELISION: |
the dropping of a syllable , or the combining
of two syllables in one.
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| FOOT: |
a metrical unit of two or more syllables.
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| FREE
VERSE: |
poetry without metre or rhyme.
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| HEPTAMETER:
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a
line of seven feet.
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| HEXAMETER: |
a line of six feet.
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| HYPERBOLE: |
exaggeration.
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| IAMB: |
a two-syllable foot in which the second syllable
has more stress than the first.
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| IAMBIC
PENTAMETER: |
a line of five iambs.
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| LIMERICK:
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a
five-line form of humorous verse. Poulter's
Measure has 13 beats and a rhyme scheme of aabba.
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| LITOTE: |
understatement.
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| METRE: |
means the pattern of rhythm in a poem.
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| OCTAVE: |
an eight-lined stanza.
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| ONOMATOPOEIA: |
a word whose sound suggests the sound it refers
to e.g Buzz suggests the sound made by bees.
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| PENTAMETER: |
a line of five feet.
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| PERSONIFICATION: |
representing objects, qualities, etc. as human
beings.
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| QUATRAIN: |
a four-line stanza or four-line poem.
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| RHYME
SCHEME: |
the pattern of rhymes in a stanza or poem.
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| RONDEL: |
a 13 or 14 line poem in which the first line,
A and the second line, B, are repeated near
the middle and at the end. The 14-line form
rhymes Abba abAB abbaAB.
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| SESTET: |
is the last six lines of an Italian sonnet,
or any six-lined stanza.
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| SONNET:
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is
a 14-line form with several rhyme schemes. The
Italian sonnet also called Petrarchan sonnet
usually rhymes abbaabba cde cde or abbaabba
cdcdcd. The English sonnet, or Shakespearean
sonnet, rhymes abab cdcd efef gg.
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| STANZA: |
a repeated pattern of lines, usually with a
metre and a rhyme scheme.
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| TRIPLET: |
a three-line stanza
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| TROCHEE: |
a two-syllable foot in which the first syllable
is more stressed than the second. |
