AP Literature Scansion
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26 Terms
line
horizontal bar of text
stanzas
body of lines
couplet
2 horizontal bars of text
triplet
3 horizontal bars of text
tercet
3 horizontal bars of text
quatrain
4 horizontal bars of text
cinquain
5 horizontal bars of text
sestet
6 horizontal bars of text
septet
7 horizontal bars of text
octet
8 horizontal bars of text
foot
unit of meter that can have 2 or 3 syllabus, consisting of 1 stressed and 1 or more unstressed syllabus
iamb
unstressed stressed
trochee
stressed unstressed
anapest
unstressed unstressed stressed
dactyl
stressed unstressed unstressed
spondee
stressed stressed
pyrrhic
unstressed unstressed
monometer
foot repeats once
dimeter
foot repeats twice
trimeter
foot repeats three times
tetrameter
foot repeats 4 times
pentameter
foot repeats 5 times
hexameter
foot repeats 6 times
heptameter
foot repeats 7 times
octameter
foot repeats 8 times
meter
(foot + -ic) + # of times foot repeats
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