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Hathaway, B. A.

"1001 Questions and Answers on Orthography and Reading"


129. _What is Poetry?_
A discourse written in verse and metrical language.
130. _What is a Verse?_
A single line of metrical language.
131. _Is it correct to use the term verse in speaking of a
division of prose?_
It is not.
132. _What should we call such division?_
Paragraph or Division.
133. _What is a Stanza?_
A number of metrical lines, or verses, combined according to a
regular system.
134. _How many kinds of metrical language?_
Two.
135. _What are they?_
Rhyme and Blank Verse.
136. _What is Rhyme?_
That language in which the concluding syllables of the verses have
a similarity of sound.
137. _How many kinds of Rhyme?_
Two.
138. _What are they?_
Perfect and imperfect.
139. _What is a Perfect rhyme?_
Where the vowels have the same sound.
140. _What is an Imperfect rhyme?_
Where the vowels have a different sound.
141. _What is Blank Verse?_
A kind of metrical language in which there is no similarity of
sound.
142. _What is the Caesura pause?_
A rhythmic pause occurring in a verse.


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