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Rhyme verse

has end rhyme and regular meter

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Blank verse

unrhymed iambic pentameter

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Free verse

no rhyme or meter

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Stanzas

divisions of a poem based on thought, meter, or rhyme

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Ballad

a narrative poem often derived from folklore, many of which end tragically

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Refrain

A line or group of repeated lines throughout a poem

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Sonnet

a fourteen line poem written in iambic pentameter

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Italian Sonnet

a sonnet form popularized in Italian literature by the poet Petrarch

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English Sonnet

a sonnet form popularized in English literature by shakespeare

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Haiku

A Japanese form of poetry that comprises three lines, the first and last having five syllables and the middle having seven

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Cinquain

A quintet (five lines), the first line contains one stressed syllable, the second, two, the third, three; the fourth, four; and the fifth, one

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Drama

A form of literature written in prose or poetry or a combination of the two chich relies on action to portray life or character

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Tells a story with action and dialogue

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Stage Directions

gfive details of time, palace, entrances, and exists of characters

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Dialogue

speeches between two or more characters in a play

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Soliloquy

a speech by one character alone on the stage

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Aside

Character directly addresses the audience

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Action

the actual movements and speech of characters on stage

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Characters

the people who perform the action

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Plot

the arrangements of events

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Exposition

introduces the characters and conflict and provides the necessary background

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Comedy

a play that ends happily

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True love

What is the theme of Lady Clare?

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If I had a choice

What theme is Rejecting traditional traditions of poetry

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Compassion

What theme is Snow in the Suburbs

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Restraints

What theme is The Panther

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John Greenleaf Whittier

Snow-Bound

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Lady Clare

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Walt Whitman

Had I the choice

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Paul Laurance Dunbar

We Wear the Mask

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Rainar Maria Rilke

The Panther

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Thomas Hardy

Snow in the Suburbs

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John Gillespie Magee Jr

High Flight

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Robert Hillyer

The Wise Old Apple Tree in Spring

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Dennis Brutus

NightSong City

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Rhina P. Espaillat

Landscape with Cows

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High Flights

Describes the acceleration of flying

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Snowbound

Shows the nature between nature and family:

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Landscape with cows

Criticisms of face pace life

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Nightsong city

A poet's prayer for peace

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Wise old apple tree

The nature of beauty

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Lady Clare

“Not so I will know if there will be any faith in man”

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Lady Clare

“Nay now, my child,” said Alice the nurse, “But keep the secret all you can.” She said, “Not so; but I will know If there be any faith in man.”

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Had I the choice

“These, these, O sea, all these I’d gladly barter,”

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The Panther

“plunges into the heart and is gone.”

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Snow in the Suburbs

“a black cats come in wide-eyed and thin, and we take him in.”

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High Flight

“The high untrespassed sanctity of space, Put on my hand, and touched the face of God.”

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Nightsong City

“My land, my love, sleep well.”

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