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| Poetry | One of the three major type of literature the others being prose and drama |
| Blank Verse | Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter lines |
| Free Verse | Poetry not written in a regular rythmical pattern or a meter |
| Haiku | Three line japanese verse form |
| Lemorac | A humorous, rhyming, five line poem with a specific meter and rhyme scheme |
| Ballad | A song like poem that tells a story often dealing with adventure and romance |
| Narrative poem | Poem that tells a story and has a plot |
| Aliteration | The commencement of two or more words of a group with the same letter |
| Assonance | resemblence of sounds |
| Consonance | a poem or piece of verse having such correspondance |
| Rhyme | the patterns of rhyme used in a poem |
| Rhymes Scheme | accord or agreement |
| rhythm | movement or procedure with uniform or pattern recurrence of a beat, accent, or the like. |
| Refrain | A line or group of lines that is repeated throughout a poem, usually after every stanza. |
| Repetition | The act of repeating; repeated action, or presentation |
| onomatopoeia | Word that imitates its sound |
| Meter | Rythmical pattern |
| Foot | A group of stresses within a line |
| Iamb | Rest then stress |
| Trochee | Stress then rest |
| Spondee | Two Stress syllables |
| Anapest | Rest, rest, stress |
| Dactyl | Stress, rest, rest |
| Scan | Marking the stress and unstressed syllables of a poem |
| monometer | One foot |
| Dimeter | Two feet |
| Trimeter | Three feet |
| Tetrameter | Four feet |
| Pentameter | five feet |
| couplet | A pair; couple |
| Tercet | a group of three lines rhyming together |
| Quatrain | A stanza o poem of four lines usually with alternate rhymes |
| Sinquain | A group of five |
| sestet | The last six lines of a sonnet in the italian form considered as a unit |
| Heptastitch | A strophe, stanza, o poem consisting of seven lines or verses |
| Octave | A tone on the eigth degree of the given tone |
| Extended Metaphor | A metaphor that is extended through a stanza or entire poem |
| Metaphor | Something used or regarded as being used to represent something else |
| Simile | A figure of speech in which two things are compared using the word “like” or “as.” |
| Speaker | A person that speaks |
| Personification | A figure of speech in which things or abstract ideas are given human attributes |
