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| Ballad | is a song like poem usually that tells a story often dealing with adventure and romance |
| Poetry | an expression of ideas and feelings in compact imaginative and musical language |
| Narrative poem | poetry that tells a story |
| Meter | a poems rhythmical pattern determined by the number and types of stresses or beats in each line |
| Limerick | a humorous rhyming |
| Lyric | poetry that expresses a speaker's personal thoughts and feelings |
| Lament | a song or poem expressing grief |
| Free Verse | poems not written in a regular rhythmic pattern or meter |
| Haiku | a three line poem usually about nature |
| Epic Poem | a long narrative poem that tells about the adventures of a hero whose actions helps to decide the fate of a nation or of a group of people |
| Dramatic poem | a poem or speech about a dramatic event in which the speaker is involved |
| Assonance | is the repetition of vowel sounds in a series of words |
| Consonance | the repetition of a consonant sound within a series of words produce a harmonious effect |
| Couplet | a pair of rhyming lines usually of the same length and meter |
| Blank Verse | unrhymed verse having five iambic feet per line |
| Quatrain | a stanza or poem made up of four lines usually with a definite rhythm and rhyme scheme |
| End rhyme | rhyming words come at the ends of lines of poetry |
| Rhyme | the repetition of sounds |
| Paean | a song or strong expression of joy and praise |
| Internal rhyme | rhyming words anywhere within a line of poetry |
| Rhyme Scheme | a regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem |
| Rhythm | the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of spoken or written language |
| Sonnet | a fourteen line lyric poem focusing on a single theme |
| Speake | the voice in the poem that speaks to the reader |
| Stanza | a group of lines in a poem considered as a unit |
