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The U Vic Writer's Guide: Literary Term: Heroic Couplet

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This site provides a short definition of the term Heroic Couplet along with a short example from a piece of poetry by Pope.

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CCSS: Adaptable
Concepts
iambic pentameter, poetry
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Additional Tags
heroic couplet, poetry terms, british poetry, chaucer, english poetry, pope, rhyme scheme
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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information
Common Core
RL.11-12.7