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| absurdity | writing that is silly or ridiculous and contrary to reason |
| adjective | a word that qualifies, defines, or limits a noun or a pronoun |
| alliteration | the same, beginning cosonant sound in two or more words close together |
| assonance | the same volwel sound in two or more words close together |
| consonance | the same consonant sound in words close together. the repeating consonant sounds may occure anywhere within the words |
| edit | alter to make more suitable; prepare for publication |
| foot | basic metrical unit |
| free verse | poetry without end rhyme, set structures, or meter |
| haiku | a traditional japanese form of poetry consisting of three lines wih 5-7-5 syllables per line |
| imagery | a mental picture |
| limerick | a traditional humorous form consisting of five lines. lines one, two, and five are long and rhyme, lines two and four are short and rhyme |
| metaphor | the comparison between two unrelated nouns |
| meter | regular patterns of heavily and lightly stressed syllables |
| accented syllable | a heavily stressed syllable in a poem writtten in meter |
| unaccented sylable | a lightly stressed syllable in a poem written in meter |
| mood | the tone of a poem reflecting the author's attitudes, feelings and perspective |
| noun | a word that names a person, place thing, quality, or state |
| onomatopoeia | the formation of words that sound like or suggest the objects or actions being named |
| parody | a comic or exaggerated imitation of a work of art |
| personification | the assignment of human traits to things, colors, qualitites, and ideas |
| poem | a compact piece of writing containing more or more poetic elements |
| poetic elements | the fundamentals and foundation of poetry, metaphor, similie, personification, imagery, alliteration |
| preposition | a word that expresses a relationship between a noun, pronoun, or noun phrase and another element of the sentence |
| repetition | repeating the same words or phrases through a poem |
| thryme | repetition of similar or identical sounds |
| endrhyme | rhyme at the ends of lines of a poem |
| exact rhyme | uses words with identical final sounds |
| internal rhyme | means rhyme of words within lines of a poem |
| near rhyme | uses words with similar but not identical sounds at the ends of words |
| rhyme pattern | scheme of rhyme in a poem, may occur regularly or in unique patterns |
| couplet | two lines of poetry that usually rhyme |
| triplet | a three line stanzea that usually rhymes |
| quatrain | is a four line stanza usually with a set of rhyme pattern |
| visual rhyme | uses words that loo like, rather than sound like, they rhyme |
| scansion | the process of marking the metrical pattern of a poem |
| similie | a comparison between two unrelated nouns using "like" or "as" to bridge the connection |
| sonnet | a traditional structure written in meter consisting of fourteen lines of three quatrains and a couplet |
| stanza | a group of lines forming a structural division of a peom |
| symbol | a sighn or object representing a thing, a quality, or an idea |
| personal symbol | a symbol significant to particular individuals or groups; has a variety of meanings |
| universal symbol | recognized at different times in history and across cultures as having a rimary or main meaning |
| verb | any class of words expressing an action performed or a state experienced by the subject |
| action verb | a verb that shows action or motion |
| auxiliary verb | a verb used in conjunction with another verb; a state experienced by the subject |
| linking berb | a verb that connects the subject of the sentence to a modifier; a state experience by the subject |
