STAAR Vocabulary Flashcards Set 2

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free verse

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poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter

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hero

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the principal character in a play or movie or novel or poem

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hubris

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overbearing pride or presumption

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iamb

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a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables

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iambic

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of metrical units having an unstressed/stressed pattern

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meter

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a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in verse

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pentameter

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a verse line having five metrical feet

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rhyme

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correspondence in the final sounds of two or more lines

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stanza

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a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem

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stressed

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bearing an accent