Quarter three vocab for poetry

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Rhythm

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a poem must be analyzed to identify the number of syllables in the line and the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables

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Stressed Syllables

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Stressed syllables are the building blocks of rhythm in poetry. A stressed syllable is pronounced with more emphasis or force, making it stand out

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Unstressed Syllables

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unstressed syllables are the building blocks of rhythm in poetry. It is softer and less pronounced.

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Refrain

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Refrain is a verse, a line, a set, or a group of lines that appears at the end of stanza, or appears where a poem divides into different sections.

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Couplet

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Unit of two lines with rhythm

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Internal rhythm

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rhyme that occurs in the middle of lines of poetry, instead of at the ends of lines.

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free verse

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Free verse is the name given to poetry that doesn’t use any strict meter or rhyme scheme. Because it has no set meter, poems written in free verse can have lines of any length, from a single word to much longer.

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Imagery

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elements of a poem that engage a reader’s senses. These are the important sights, sounds, feelings, and smells.

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Iambic

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Iambic meter is the pattern of a poetic line made up of iambs, a metrical foot of poetry consisting of two syllables—an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable

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Iambic pentameter

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line of verse composed of ten syllables arranged in five metrical feet (iambs)