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| alliteration | the repetition of the initial consonant |
| onomatopoeia | use of words that sound like their meanings |
| personification | things or animals are given human qualities |
| poetry | a literary expression in which words are used in a concentrated blend of sound and imagery to create an emotional response |
| repetition | a device that poets use to emphasize a thought or idea |
| rhyme | used in poetry beause it is pleasing to hear |
| stanza | is the equivalent to a paragraph in normal prose |
| meter | pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables |
| foot | a metrical unit of poetry |
| sonnet | 14 line poem |
| caesura | a pause or break within a line of poetry |
| refrain | a word, phrase, line or group of lines that is repeated, for effect |
| octave | 8 line poem or the first 8 lines of Italian sonnet |
| iambic pentameter | a line of poetry that contains five iambic feet |
| rhythm | alternation of stressed and unstressed syllables in language |
| sestet | 6 lines of poetry, especially the last 6 lines in an Italian sonnet |
| couplet | 2 consecutive rhyming lines of poetry |
| free verse | poetry that does not coform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme |
| blank verse | poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter |
| quatrain | a poem consisting of four lines or four lines of a poem that can be considered as a unit |
| lyric | does not tell a story but expresses personal feelings or thoughts of a speaker |
| assonance | repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds |
| cadence | natural, rhythmic rise and fall of a language as it is normally spoken |
| scanning | analysis of a poem to determine its meter |
