ELEMENTS OF POETRY

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Overall organization of lines and/or conventional patterns of sound.

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STRUCTURE

Front

What is a series of lines grouped together and separated by an empty line called?

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Stanza

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It is any poem with one speaker who expresses strong thoughts and poems. Most poems, especially modern ones, are lyric poems.

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LYRIC POETRY

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It is a poem that tells a story. It is similar to the plot of a story.

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NARRATIVE POEM

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It is a poem that describes the world that surrounds the speaker.

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DESCRIPTIVE POEM

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It is the repetition of similar sounds.

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RHYME

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Systematic regularity in rhythm, identified by examining the type of "foot" and the number of feet.

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METER

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Iamb verse is a measure of two syllables where the first one is unaccented and the second is accented.

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TRUE

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If three iambic feet are present in a line, the line is called iambic tetrameter.

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FALSE - trimeter

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If six iambic feet are present in a line, the line is called iambic hexameter.

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TRUE