| A | B |
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| poetry | Way of expressing oneself through words that are in lines and may or may not rhyme |
| rhyme | words that sound alike |
| accented syllable | the emphasized syllable |
| rhyme scheme | arrangement of rhyming words in a poem (the last word of each line) |
| metaphors | figurative language that compares two different things by stating that one is the other |
| similes | are figurative language that compares two different things using like or as |
| couplet | a pair of lines of poetry that are usually rhymed |
| meter | the basic rhythmic structure of a verse |
| unaccented syllable | the syllables that don't have an emphasis |
| foot | a certain number of syllables in a line |
| pentameter | 5 feet in a line of poetry |
| free verse | no rhyme scheme or other patterns |
| nonsense | silly poem that makes no sense |
| iamb | form of meter where each foot is one unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable |
