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| free verse | poetry that avoids use of regular rhyme, rhythm, meter, or division into stanzas |
| concrete poem | a poem whose meaning is conveyed through its graphic shape or pattern on the printed page |
| lyric | a highly musical verse that expresses the emotions of a speaker |
| ballad | a simple narrative poem of folk origin |
| blank verse | unrhymed verse |
| haiku | a major form of Japanese verse |
| limerick | a kind of humorous verse of five lines |
| figurative language | discribes something by comparing it to something else |
| hyperbole | exaggeration |
| metaphor | a figurative language - comparing one thing to another |
| simile | a comparison using like or as |
| personification | figurative language in which non-human things are given human characteristics |
| assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds in stressed syllables that end with different consonant sounds |
| alliteration | the repetition of initial consonant sounds |
| onomatopoeia | the use of words or phrases that sound like the things to which they refer |
| stanza | a group of lines in a poem |
| dialect | a variety of language distinguished by its use by a group of speakers who are set off from others geographically or socially |
| refrain | a phrase or verse recurring at intervals in a song or poem |
| rhyme | correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds) |
| meter/rhythm | the pattern of stresses or beats in written language |
| repetition | something made by or resulting from repeating |
| rhyme scheme | a regular pattern of rhymed words at the end of a line of poetry |
| sonnet | fourteen line poem that follows one of a number of different rhyme themes |
| couplet | two lines |
| quatrain | four lines |
| diction | the accent, inflection, intonation, and speech-sound quality manifested by an individual speaker |
| elegy | a mournful, melancholy, or plaintive poem |
| narrative | tells a story and has all the elements of fiction |
| ode | a lofty lyrical poem on a serious theme |
| octave | eight lines |
| poetry | the art of expressing one's thoughts in verse |
| acrostic | a poem in which the first letter of each line forms a word |
| blues | a song or poem, originating with American blacks, usually taking on the theme of struggle or despair |
