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| personification | figure of speech in which an idea, animal, or things is described as if it were a person |
| sonnet | a fourteen line poem that follows one of a number of different rhyme schemes |
| heroic couplet | a pair of rhyming iambic pentameter lines |
| imagery | language that creates a concrete representation of an object or an experience |
| lyric poem | a highly musical verse that expresses the emotions of a speaker |
| ballad | a simple narrative poem in four-line stanzas, usually meant to be sung and usually rhyming abcb |
| Shakespearean Sonnet | a sonnet that is divided into four parts: three quatrains and a final couplet |
| consonance | a kind of slant rhyme in which the ending consonant sounds of two words match, but the preceding vowel sound does not |
| epic poem | a long story, often told in verse, involving heroes and gods |
| dramatic poem | verse that relies heavily on dramatic elements such as monologue or dialogue |
| figurative language | writing or speech meant to be understood imaginatively instead of literally |
| meter | rhythmical pattern of a poem |
| rhythm | the pattern of beats or stresses in a line of verse or prose |
| dramatic monologue | poem that presents a speech of a single character in a dramatic situation |
| onomatopoeia | the use of words or phrases that sound like the things to which they refer |
| alliteration | repetition of initial consonant sounds |
| narrative poem | verse that tells a story |
| blank verse | unrhymed poetry written in iambic pentameter |
| ode | a lofty lyric poem on a serious theme |
| allegory | a work in which each element symbolizes something else |
