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Vocab. set 8
Essential terms set 8
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| euphony | to the musicality of language. It is beauty on a more fundamental level than imagery, themes, or a moving story. Instead, euphony simply refers to the beautiful sounds of words when they are read aloud. |
| enjambment | In poetry or verse, the technique of breaking a line of verse in the middle of a phrase so that the phrase continues on the next line without a natural pause between lines. |
| sonnet | A formal poem consisting of fourteen lines and following a standard rhyme scheme. Petrarchan sonnets consist of an eight-line stanza followed by a six-line stanza, while Shakespearean sonnets comprise three quatrains followed by a rhyming couplet. |
| blank verse | Poetry or prose that does not rhyme but has a consistent meter, usually iambic pentameter. |
| couplet | In poetry or verse, a pair of consecutive lines of poetry that form a complete thought, usually rhyming and having the same meter and sometimes placed in their own stanza. |
| stanza | A group of lines in a poem that is separated from other lines, similar to a paragraph in prose. |
| line | A line is a subdivision of a poem, specifically a group of words arranged into a row that ends for a reason other than the right-hand margin. This reason could be that the lines are arranged to have a certain number of syllables, a certain number of stres |
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