EnglishHExam1S1Voc2
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Sanders6-4 on December 11, 2011
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17 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Scansion | Art of examining the metrical structure of poetry |
| Quatrain | A grouping of 4 poetic lines |
| Octave | A grouping of 8 poetic lines |
| Couplet | A pair of lines that rhyme |
| Sestet | A grouping of 6 poetic lines |
| Iambic | /uI/ |
| Trochaic | /-U/ |
| Anapestic | /UU-/ |
| Dactylic | /-UU/ |
| Virgule | Also known as a sash |
| English sonnet | ababcdcdefefgg |
| Italian sonnet | abbabbacdedde |
| Spenserian sonnet | abababbcdccdecdee |
| Meter | Repetition of regular rhythm in a poetic line |
| Pentameter | 5 poetic feet in a single line |
| Tetrameter | 4 poetic feet in a single line |
| True rhyme | Identical sounds at the ends of poetic lines |
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