English: Poetry

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A symbolic narrative which implies a secondary meaning.
Allegory
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A pause in the middle of a line.
Caesura
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Two lines in a poem that may or may not be a stanza.
Couplets
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A line which runs onto another.
Enjambment
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A figure of speech which involves exaggeration.
Hyperbole
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A poem that tells a story.
A narrative poem.
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A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.
Sonnet.
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Five pairs of alternating unstressed and stressed syllables. The beat goes: If mu- / -sic be / the food / of love, / play on
Iambic Pentameter.
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A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas.
Ballad.
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Card 2

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A pause in the middle of a line.

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Caesura

Card 3

Front

Two lines in a poem that may or may not be a stanza.

Back

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Card 4

Front

A line which runs onto another.

Back

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Card 5

Front

A figure of speech which involves exaggeration.

Back

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