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| alliteration | The repetition of the same inital consonant in two or more words that occur close together. |
| assonance | A figure of speech that results from the repetition, in close succession, of the same accented vowel sounds in words whose consonants differ. |
| ballad | A poem originally meant to be sung. Focuses on a single, often tragic incident. Contains dialogue and repetition. |
| blank verse | An unrhymed form of poetry written in iambic pentameter. A line written in iambic pentameter normally consists of five pairs of syllables(10 in all) in which every other syllable, beginning with the second, is stressed. |
| caesura | Is a pause or sudden break in a line of poetry. |
| concrete poem | A form of poetry in which the arrangements of the words on the page presents something important about the meaning of the poem. |
| consonance | The repetition of consonant sounds. Although it is similar to alliteration, consonance is not limited to the first letters of words. |
| couplet | Two lines of verse the same length that usually rhymes. |
| end rhyme | The rhyming words that appear at the ends of two or more lines of poetry. |
| enjambment | The running over a sentence or thought from one line to another. |
| epic | A long narrative poem celebrating the adventures of a hero. |
| free verse | Poetry having no regular meter nor rhyme but usually containing a vague natural or conversational rhythm of speech. |
| haiku | A form of japanese poetry that has three lines; the first line has five syllables, the second has seven syllables, and the third line has five syllables. The subject of the haiku has traditionally been nature. |
| hyperbole | A figure of speech using gross or absurd exaggeration for poetic or imaginative effect. |
| internal rhyme | This occurs when the rhyming words appear in the same line poetry. |
| imagery | A general term used to describe the main sensory figures of speech(metaphor, similie, personification, etc.) The pictures, sounds, tastes, smells, and touches the poem gives you. |
| limerick | A humorous poem of five lines of which the first, second and fifth lines have three feet and rhyme and the third and fourth have two and rhyme. |
| lyric | Is a short verse that is intended to express the emotions quite often these lyrics are set to music. |
| metaphor | A figure of speech in which two things are identified with each other giving an implied comparision without the use of "like or as." |
| meter | The rhythm of a line of poetry created by the regular repition of similar accent patterns. A definite and systematic rhythm established in a poem. |
| onomatopoeia | A figure of speech in which the sound is suggestive of the meaning. |
| oxymoron | a figure of speech using a contradictory or incongruous combination of terms. |
| personification | A figure of speech in which human from or characteristics are attributed to inanimate things |
| repetition | The repeating of a word or phrase within a poem to create a sense of rhythm. |
| refrain | Is the repetition of a line or phrase of a poem at regular intervals, especially at the end of each stanza. A song's refrain may be called a chorus. |
| rhyme | The simialrity or likeness of sound existing between two words. |
| rhyme scheme | The pattern in which rhymes are arranged in a poem. |
| rhythm | The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem. The beat. Ordered or regular rhythm is called meter. Free occurrences of souns is called free verse. |
| similie | A figue of speech expressing a comparison between two essentially unlike things. |
| metaphor | Good books are food and drink to an avid reader. |
| onomatopoeia | Buzz, sizzle, hiss |
| oxymoron | Cruel kindness, happy sadness |
| similie | Those memories are like gold coins to me. |
| alliteration | Over cobbles he clattered and clashed... |
| assonance | Bit a fix, fate and sake |
| consonance | The high school girls with the clear skin smiles. |
| hyperbole | His mind was a million miles away |
| internal rhyme | You break my eyes with a look that buys sweet cake |
| stanza | A recurring unit or repeated brief division of a poem, separated by spaces to make for easier reading or to show a change in thought or time. |
| symbol | An object that stands for or represents an idea |
| speaker | The voice that talks to the reader, similar to the narrator in fiction. Speakers can describe the action from the viwepoint of an objective observer and make no refrences to himself/herself at all or use the pronoun "I" and take part in the action. |
| sonnet | A poem consisting of 14 lines or iambis pentameter. There are two popular forms of the sonnet, the Italian and the Shakespearean |
| Shakespearean sonnet | A poem consisting of three quatrains and a final rhyming couplet. The rhyme scheme is abab, cdcd, efef, gg. Usually the question theme is set forth in the quatrains while the answer or resolution appears in the final couplet. |
| hyperbole | "I have seen this river so wide it had only one bank." |
| metaphor | "A green plant is a machine thgat runs on solar energy." |
| Personification | "The rock subbornly refused to move." |
| similie | "She stood in front of the altar, shaking like a freshly caught trout." |
