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| narative poem | writer tells a story in verse |
| epic poem | long poem about gods or heroes |
| dramatic poem | writer tells a story using a characters thoughts or statements |
| sonnet | 14 line lyric poem with formal patterns of rythm + rhyme |
| lyric poem | brief poem where writer expresses feelings of a single speaker + have musical quality |
| haiku | lyric poem that contains 3 unrhymed lines of 5, 7 and 5 syllables - Japanese use |
| ballad | a songlike narrative poem about adventure or romance |
| limerick | humorous, nonsensical poem of 5 lines with specific rhyme scheme |
| metaphor | description of one thing as if it were another |
| simile | a comparison of two unlike things by using like, as resembles |
| personification | giving human characteristics to nonhuman things |
| paradox | a statement or idea that seems contradictory (opposites) but expresses a truth |
| onomatopoeia | using a word whose sound imitates its meaning like pop or hiss |
| consonance | repitition of final consonant sounds in stressed syllables with different vowel sounds |
| assonance | repition of similar vowel sounds in stressed syllables that end with different consonants |
| alliteration | the repitition of beginning consonants |
| meter | the rhythm pattern of a poem, creates rhyme |
| slant rhyme | refers to words that almost rhyme |
| appostive phrase | phrase placed near noun or pronoun that it identifies, renames, or explains |
| prepositional phrase includes | a preposition and a noun or pronoun |
| infinitive | a simple form of a verb usually starting with "to" |
| preposition | relates a noun or pronoun to another word |
| object of a preposition | noun or pronoun at end of prepositional phrase |
