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| villanelle | a lyric poem written in three-line stanzas and ending in a four-line stanza. |
| free verse | verse not written in a formal rhythmical pattern |
| assonance | reptition of similar vowel sounds |
| lyrical poetry | expresses the observations and feelings of a single speaker in highly mucical verse |
| metaphor | a comparison where the poet says one thing is another |
| alliteration | repetition of the first sound of several words |
| dramatic poem | verse that presents the speech of one or more characters |
| meter | formal organization of rhythms; a pattern of alternating stressed and unstressed syllables |
| onomatopoeia | the use of words to imitate acutal sounds |
| haiku | lyric poem of 5, 7, 5 syllables. Usually about nature |
| consonance | reptition of similar consonant sounds at the ends of accented syllables |
| personification | describes an object, animal or idea as if it had human characteristics |
| sonnet | a fourteen line poem written in iambic pentameter |
| narrative poem | poem that uses plot, characters, and setting to tell a story |
| tanka | 5 unrhymed lines with 5, 7, 5, 7, 7 syllables |
| simile | compares unlike things using like or as |
