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| Alliteration | The repetition of consonant sounds in the beginning of words |
| concrete poem | Poems shaped to look like their subjects |
| Couplet | pair of lines |
| Figurative Language | writing of speech not ment to be taken literally |
| Extended Metaphor | Just like a metaphor except several connected comparisions are made |
| Free Verse | Poetry defined by its lack of strict structure |
| Haiku | 3 Line Japanese verse form that has 5 syllables, 7 syllables, and 5 syllables |
| Images | words or phrases that appeal to the 5 senses |
| Limerick | Humorous, rhyming, 5 Line Poems |
| Lyric Poem | Poetry that expresses the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker, in highly musical verse |
| Metaphor | describe one thing as if it were something else |
| Meter | Rhythmical pattern in a poem |
| Narrative Poem | Tells a story in verse |
| Onomatopoeia | the use of words that imitate sounds |
| Personification | gives human qualities to something that is not hum |
| Poetry | Expressive writing using rhythm and rhyme to covery emotion |
| Prose | the ordinary form of written language (writing that is not poetry, drama, or song) |
| Repetition | the use of any element of language more than once |
| Rhyme | repetition of sounds at the ends of words |
| Rhyme Scheme | regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem |
| Rhythm | Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in spoken or written language |
| Sensory Language | writing that appeals to the senses |
| Simile | Use like or as to compare two apparently unlike things |
| Sound Devices | techniques used by writers to give musical effects to their writing |
| Stanza | a group of lines |
| Symbol | anything that represents something else |
