Prose and Poetry Terms Flashcards

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The distance between the left and right edges of a line in poetry

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line length

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when one stanza ends and another begins

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stanza break

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the end of one line of poetry, and the beginning of a new line

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line break

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blankness or emptiness to visually create an aesthetic; creates lack of sound or changes the sound

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white space

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when a poet moves the text away from the left-hand margin to complicate traditional line breaks

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indentation

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the pattern of rhyming lines;

named using the letters of the alphabet (for example, AABBAABB)

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rhyme scheme

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the rhyming of the final words of lines in a poem; words with the same ending sounds

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end rhyme

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the rhyming of two words within the same line of poetry

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internal rhyme

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words that sound alike or similar but not exactly the same

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slant rhyme

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a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables creates the rhythm of lines of poetry

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meter