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| ballad | This is a songlike type of poem that tells a story. A __________ often deals with adventure and romance. |
| sensory language | This is writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the five senses. |
| couplet | Two consecutive lines of verse with end rhymes. |
| elegy | A solemn and lyric poem about death. |
| epic poem | A long narrative poem that tells the adeventures of gods or heroes. |
| free verse | Poetry without regular rhythmical pattern or meter. |
| haiku | A lthree-line Japanese verse form of poetry. The first and third lines have five syllables each, and the second line contains seven syllables. These poems are usually written aobut nature. |
| limerick | A humorous, rhyming, five-line poem with an AABBA rhyming scheme |
| lyrick poem | This kind of poem is a highly musical verse that expresses the observations and feelings of a single speaker. |
| narrative poem | This kind of poem is a story told in verse. The poems have all the leements of short stories, including characters, conflict and plot. |
| ode | This is a formal lyric poem with a serious theme. Odes often honor people, commemorate events or respond to natural scenes. |
| sonnet | This is a 14-line lyric poem with a single theme. |
| alliteration | This is the repetition of initial consonnant sounds. For example, "If you give a pig a pancake..." |
| assonance | This is the repetition of VOWEL sounds at the beginning, middle or end of a group of words. |
| consonance | This is the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning, middle or end of a group of words. |
| imagery | The use of words or phrases that appeal to one or more of the five senses. Poets often paint images or words that appeal to your senses. |
| meter | This is the poem's rhythmical pattern. This pattern is determined by the number of stresses and beats in each line. |
| mood | This is the feeling created by a literary work. |
| onomatopoeia | This is the use of words that imitate sounds. Examples include: crash, buzz, screech, hiss, jingle, and cluck. |
| personification | This is a type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics. |
| refrain | this is a regularly repeated line or group of lines in a poem or a song. |
| repetition | This is the use, more than once, of any element of language--a sound, word, phrase, clause, or sentence. |
| rhyme | This is the repetition of sounds at the end of words. |
| rhyme scheme | This is a regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem. Each rhyme is assigned a different letter. For example, the following poem is "abab". The way a crow/(a) Shook done on me/(b) The dusto of snow/(a) From a hemlock tree/(b) |
| rhythm | This is the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in spoken or written language. |
| concrete poem | This is a poem with a shape that suggests the poem's subject. |
