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Refrain
A phrase, verse, or group of verses repeated at intervals throughout a song or poem, especially at the end of each stanza
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Rhyme
Correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds)
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End rhyme
Rhyme occurring at the ends of verse lines
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Internal Rhyme
Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse
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Setting
Time and place in which a play, book, movie, etc. takes place
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Situation
Describes what is going on within the setting (usually dynamic, telling a story of how characters interact with each other, or with the setting)
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Speaker
Someone who expresses in language
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Stanza
A fixed number of lines of berse forming a unit of a poem
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Iambic
A verse consisting of iambs (rhythmic arrangement of syllables with stressed and unstressed syllables)
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Foot
A group of two or three syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm
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Blank Verse
Unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter)
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Free Verse
Unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern
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Heroic Couplet
A couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentameter and written in an elevated style
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Epic
A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds
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Haiku
A terse and witty Japanese berse form of three short lines
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Limerick
A humorous verse form of five anapestic (two short syllables followed by a long one) lines with a rhyme scheme: aa bba
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Lyric
A short poem of songlike quality
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Sonnet-Shakespearean
The sonnet form used by Shakespeare, composed of three quatrains and a terminal couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern: abab cdcd efef gg
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