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| Ballad | a poem which tells a story and usually rhymes every other line. |
| Free verse | poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme |
| Haiku | A form of Japanese poetry which has only three lines with specific number of syllables |
| Sonnet | a highly structured poem which usually consists of a specific rhyme scheme AND fourteen lines of iambic pentameter. |
| Ode | a type of lyric poem which is written to/about someone or something. |
| Psalm | a type of lyric poem which is religious in nature |
| Blank verse | an unrhymed form of poetry which normally consists of ten syllables in which every other syllable, beginning with the second, is stressed |
| consonance | the repetition of consonant sounds which is NOT limited to the first letter of each word. |
| alliteration | the repetition of consonant sounds in neighboring words |
| paradox | a statement which at first seems contradictory but which turns out to have a profound meaning |
| assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds (within the words) without the repetition of consonants |
| onomatopoeia | the use of a word whose sound suggests its meaning; the word itself imitates the |
| rhyme | the similarity or likeness of sound existing between two words; the ends of the words sound the same |
| repetition | the repeating of a word or phrase within a poem or prose piece to create a sense of rhythm. |
| caesura | a pause or sudden break in a line of poetry |
| foot | a unit of meter which denotes the combination of stressed and unstressed syllables. |
| meter | the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry. |
| canto | a division of a long poem |
| stanza | a division of poetry named for the number of lines it contains: couplet (2), Triplet (3), Quatrain (4), etc. |
| rhythm | the ordered or free occurrences of sound in poetry |
| verse | A metric LINE of poetry named according to the kind and number of feet composing it |
