| A | B |
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| quarain | a four-line stanza |
| couplets | a pair rhyming lines, separated from the rest of the poem |
| elegy | a poem mourning the dead |
| end rhyme | a poem wth rhyming words at the end of each line |
| epic | a long poem about the adventures of a hero |
| stanza | a section of poetry a poem "paragraph" |
| lyric | poetry that exresses the poet's emotiions |
| meter | patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem |
| personification | giving a human quality to a nonhuman thing |
| alliteration | repetition of beginning consonant sounds |
| The rain went down the drain | internal rhyme |
| allegory. | a story where the caracters represent abstract qualities or ideas |
| blank verse | unrhymed lines of poetry, usually in iambic pentameter |
| couplets | a pair of rhyming lines in a poem |
| irony | language that conveys a certain idea by saying just the opposite. |
| plot | the action of the story |
| simile | a comparison that uses "like" or "as" |
| sonnett | a 14-line poem written in iambic pentameter |
| tone | the author' attitude toward his or her subject |
| pun | the use of a word in a way that plays on its different meanings. |
