Poetry - Key Terms

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A break in the rhythem of a line, often shown with punctuation marks.
Caesura
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A poem written in iambic pentameter that doesn't rhyme.
Blank Verse
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Where a word or phase has two or more possible meanings.
Ambiguity
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Poetry that doesn't rhyme and has no regular rhythm.
Free Verse
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A phrase which seems to contradict itself because the words have different meanings.
Oxymoron
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A four line stanza that usually rhymes.
Quatrain
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When an object stands for something else.
Symbolism
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Poetry with a metre of 10 syllables - five of them unstressed and 5 stressed.
Iambic Pentameter
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The arrangement of syllables to create rhythm in a line of poetry.
Metre
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Card 2

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A poem written in iambic pentameter that doesn't rhyme.

Back

Blank Verse

Card 3

Front

Where a word or phase has two or more possible meanings.

Back

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Card 4

Front

Poetry that doesn't rhyme and has no regular rhythm.

Back

Preview of the front of card 4

Card 5

Front

A phrase which seems to contradict itself because the words have different meanings.

Back

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