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| alliteration | repetition of a consonant at the beginning of a line of poetry |
| assonance | the repetition of a vowel sound in a line of poetry |
| couplet | two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme and contain the same meter |
| onomatopoeia | a word that sounds like what it means |
| end rhyme | rhyme at the end of the line of poetry |
| internal rhyme | a rhyme within a line of poetry |
| free verse | a poem that is independent or "free" of rhyme scheme and meter |
| blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter |
| narrative | a poem that tells a story |
| lyric | usually a short personal poem about a poet's thoughts or emotions |
| iambic | a type of meter that is unstressed and then stressed |
| trochaic | a type of meter that is stressed and then unstressed |
| anapestic | a type of meter that is unstressed, unstressed, and then stressed |
| dactylic | a type of meter that is stressed and then unstressed, unstressed |
| meter | the fixed (or nearly fixed) pattern of stressed/unstressed syllables in a line of verse that produces rhythm |
| foot | the basic unit of measurement in a line of poetry |
| ballad | a form of narrative poetry that focuses on one episode, which is usually sad or tragic |
| elegy | a poem of sorrow or mourning for the dead |
| sonnet | a 14 line lyric poem in iambic pentameter and a rhyme scheme |
