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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT STACK #709205 EXAM
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-Guarantee passing score -53 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation Question 1: A meter that uses a consistent number of strong speech stresses per line. The number of unstressed syllables may vary, as long as the accected syllables do not. Much popular poety, such as rap and nursery rhymes.
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Accentual meter Question 2: The running on of the thought from one line, couplet, or stanza to the next without a syntactical breat
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Enjambment Question 3: A verse meter consisting of eight metrical feet, or eight primary stresses per line
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Octameter Question 4: A lyric poem typically of elaborate or irregular metrical form and expressive of exalted or enthusiastic emotion
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Ode
Question 5: A full rhyme in which the sounds following the initial letters of the words are identical in sound, as in follow and hollow, go and slow, disband and this hand
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Exact rhyme Question 6: A rhyme in which the final consonant sounds are the same but the vowel sounds are different, as in letter and litter, bone and bean
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Slant Rhyme
Question 7: A recurrent, regular, rhythmic pattern in verse
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Meter Question 8: The unit of measurement in metrical poetry. Different meters are identified by the pattern and order of stressed and unstressed syllables
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Foot
Question 9: Rhyme that occurs within a line of poetr, as opposed to end rhyme
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Internal rhyme Question 10: Word choice or vocabular. Refers to the class of words that an author decides is appropriate to use in a particular work
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Diction
Question 11: Rhyme that occurs at the ends of lines, rather than within them
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End rhyme Question 12: A short and usually comic verse form of five anapestic lines usually rhyming aabba. The first, second, and fifth lines traditionally have three stressed syllables each; the third and fourth have two stresses each
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Limerick
Question 13: An extended speech by a single character.
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Monologue Question 14: A verse meter consisting of seven metrical feet, or seven primary streeses, per line
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Heptameter Question 15: A verse meter consisting of two metrical feet, or two primary stresses, per line
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Dimeter
Question 16: An emphasis or accent placed on a syllable in speech
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Stress Question 17: A verse form in which the poet establishes a pattern of a certain number of syllables to a line.
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Syllabic verse Question 18: Any recurrent pattern of rhyme within an individual poem or fixed form.
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Rhyme scheme Question 19: A person, place, or thing in a narrative that suggests meaning beyond its literal sense.
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Symbol Question 20: A practice used to describe rhythmic patterns in a poem by separating the metrical feet, counting the syllables, marking the accents, and indicating the pauses
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Scansion
Question 21: A Japanese verse form that has three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables. Often serious and spiritual in tone, relying on imagery, and usually set in one of the four seasons
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Haiku Question 22: A very short poem, often comic, usually ending with some sharp turn of wit or meaning
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Epigram Question 23: Has a rhyme scheme organized into three quatrains with a final couplet. The poem may turn or shift in mood or tone, between any of the quatrains
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English or Shakespearean sonnet Question 24: A poetic device using elaborate comparisons, such as equating a loved one with the graces and beauties of the world. Most notable used by the Italian poet Petrarch in praise of his beloved Laura
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Conceit Question 25: A short peom expressing the thoughts and feelings of a single speakers. Often written in first person; has a songlike immediacy and emotional force
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Lyric
Question 26: A poem or stanza of six lines.
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Sestet Question 27: A recurring pattern of two or more lines of verse, poetry's equivalent to the paragraph in prose. The basic organizational principle of most formal poetry
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Stanza