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| alliteration | repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words |
| blank verse | unrhymed poetry written in iambic pentameter |
| iamb | a metrical foot: an unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable |
| pentameter | five feet per line |
| couplet | two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme |
| end rhyme | repetition of syllable sounds at the end of the line |
| free verse | poetry written without regular patterns of rhyme and meter |
| imagery | the representation in words of any sense experience. |
| internal rhyme | the repetition of syllable sounds within a single line of poetry |
| meter | the repetition of a regular rhythmic unit in a line of poetry |
| rhyme scheme | the pattern of end rhyme in a poem |
| onomatopoeia | the use of words that imitate sounds |
| poetry | language arranged in lines |
| stanza | a group of lines that form a unit in a poem |
| blank verse | unrhymed poetry written in iambic pentameter |
| concrete poem | a poem in which the shape of the poem suggests something important about the poem's meaning |
| diction | a writer's choice of words |
| foot | a unit of the regular rhythm in a line of poetry |
| narrative poem | a poem which tells a story |
| refrain | a part of a stanza repeated at the ends of succeeding stanzas |
| repetition | a literary technique in which a word or phrase is repeated for emphasis |
| rhythm | the repetition of regular rhythmic units in a line of poetry |
| symbol | a person, place, object, or idea that stands for something beyond itself |
