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eight metrical feet
octameter
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extended metaphor, i.e., the cat in "Elegy to a Favourite Cat"
conceit
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figure of speech where a small piece of something stands i for something larger
synecdoche
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five metrical feet; iambic most common
pentameter
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four metrical feet; common
tetrameter
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from the Greek for "poem in couplets" or "song"; earliest were for soldiers as they left for battle
elegy
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historically consistent elements that a reader has come to expect from a particular kind of poetry
conventions
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in metaphor, the subject being illustrated
tenor
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line of six metrical feet; not common in English poetry
hexameter
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line runs into next line; opposite of end-stopped; a continuation of the sense & grammatical construction beyond the end of a line of verse or the end of a couplet
enjambment
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metaphor drawn from the context; i.e., "paleface" for a white man
metonymy
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metaphor that uses like or as
simile
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metrical foot composed of two equally accented syllables
spondee
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unequal stanzas; opposite of homostrophic
heterostropic
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opposite of literal; use of words, phrases, symbols, & ideas in such a way as to invoke mental images & sense impressions
figurative
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regular rhyming stanza format w/ repetition & refrains; origins in oral poetry
ballad
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poetic rhythm or cadence as determined by the syllables in a line of poetry with respect to quantity & accent; also meter & metrical foot
measure
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poetry written without rhyme or specific meter; a fluid form which conforms to no set rules of traditional versification
free verse
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recurring rhythmic pattern in a poem that establishes the internal structure of the lines & in some cases whole stanzas; aka measure
meter
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refers to presence of a metrical norm or pattern within poems that are are loose enough to be considered free verse
ghost of meter
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single metrical foot; rare to find an entire poem constructed with it
monometer
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