Poetry Voc Set 3
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13 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Refrain | a repeated sound, word, phrase, line, or group of lines |
| Stanza | a group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit |
| Symbol | most poetry contains one or more symbols meant to stand for something |
| Couplets | pair of rhymed lines. |
| Quatrain | 4 line stanza - most common in English language |
| Rhythm | the BEAT of the poem. One way poets create rhythm is through METER. |
| Meter | regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. |
| Rhyme scheme | Pattern of rhymes which gives structure to the poem. |
| Free Verse | Poetry without a regular meter. May or may not rhyme. Poets want to capture the natural rhythms of conversation. |
| Blank Verse | UN rhymed iambic pentameter with meter. |
| Iambic Pentameter | Five stressed syllables per line. |
| end rhymes | are used in most poems |
| internal rhyme | When rhymes occur within lines |
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