Poestic terms

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couplet?
stanza with two lines
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dramatic monologue?
when there is one person speaking
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quatrain?
stanza with 4 lines
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tercet?
stanza with 3 lines
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septet?
stanza with 7 lines
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sestet?
stanza with 6 lines
6 of 15
quintet?
stanza with 5 lines
7 of 15
octave?
stanza with 8 lines
8 of 15
enjambment?
when a line has no punctuation at the end
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caesura?
when there is a pause in a line (e.g. full stop/exclamation mark/question mark
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end-stopped line?
the opposite of enjambment where a line stops
11 of 15
refrain?
repeating of a single line in poetry
12 of 15
regular rhythm?
rhyme which is consistent (number of syllables/rhyme/stanza length)
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irregular rhythm?
rhyme which is inconsistent
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extended metaphor?
metaphors throughout the poem
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Card 2

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when there is one person speaking

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dramatic monologue?

Card 3

Front

stanza with 4 lines

Back

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Card 4

Front

stanza with 3 lines

Back

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Card 5

Front

stanza with 7 lines

Back

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