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What type of poem ends with a heroic couplet Petrarchan or Shakespearean

Any kind of rhyming couplet ends Shakespearean, doesn't have to be heroic The Shakespearean (or "English" or "Elizabethan") sonnet ends with a heroic couplet.

What is rhythm

it is a beat that re-peats (pattern)

Was friends the best tv show ever

''Not in my opinion. Mork and Mindy was the best TV show ever as far as I'm concerned. Now that show was funny'

No actually I think friends is the best tv show ever but people have their own opinions.

Actually i think you'll find the majority of people who have a television prefer Friends than 'Mork And Mindy'

What is a pyrrhic

a metrical foot that features two unstressed syllables

It also refers to a victory gained at considerable cost. It takes its name from Pyrrhus, King of Epirus who defeated the Roman armies is 280 BC. The cost of the victory was so great that he was unable to proceed to take Rome

What term is defined as the identification of the meter by scanning the feet and the stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry

scansion

Which of these terms is defined as a poem that consists of fourteen lines of iambic pentameter

sonnet

A metrical foot pattern in poetry that features one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables

This is known as a dactyl.

Which of these terms is defined as a pair of rhymed lines usually of the same length that form a stanza

couplet

What is prosody of speech

Prosody is defined as the name of the speech elements of stress, rhythm and intonation. Prosody training needs a strong hearing and determined intent to listen to how words and utterances are made. All the elements of prosody are used in the spoken forms of language.

Which of these terms is defined as the structure of a verse as identified by the process of scansion

versification

Which of these terms is defined as a humorous story that is exaggerated in an extreme manner

tall tale

What term is defined as the continued use of a word phrase stanza form or effect in any form of literature

Refrain

What is the definition of the Latin or Greek root word Nego from reading the clues in this sentence If you negate my answer you consider it untrue

If you negate my answer, you consider it untrue. The root word, nego, means deny, refuse.

If you deny or refuse to accept my answer, you consider it untrue!

Who is Ricsi

Ricki's brother

Which of these is defined as a from of nonfiction in which the author writes about another person's life

genre

What poetic form does Wendy Cope use in Lissadell

The villanelle

Which noticeable feature does another lullaby for insomniacs include

rhyme

Which might help a sestina seem fresh and interesting

letting the definition of the repeated words change slightly each time

Which best explains the history of the heroic couplet

it was used in the canterbury tales and in English translations of greek epics

What is a drug paderack

Padtrack is a drug used to help fight cancer.

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