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| meter | a poem's rhythmical pattern |
| rhyme | repetition of sounds at the ends of words |
| rhythm | pattern of beats or stresses in spoken or written language |
| diction | word choice of the author |
| syntax | the way in which linguistic elements are put together to form constituents |
| imagery | descriptive language used in literature to recreate sensory experiences |
| mood | the feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage |
| internal rhyme | rhyme between a word within a line and another at the end of the same line |
| allusion | a reference back to past historical event especially in literature |
| English sonnet form | three quatrains and couplet; ABAB CDCD EFEF GG |
| Italian sonnet form | an octave and a sextet; ABBA ABBA |
| stanza | the sections that poems and sonnets are written in |
| couplet | two sentences in a poem |
| tercet | three sentences in a poem or sonnet |
| quatrain | four sentence poem |
| sextet | six sentences in a poem |
| octave | eight sentences in a poem |
| iambic pentameter | a line of poetry with five iambic feet, each with one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable |
