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| poems | are NOT written in prose and often use rhymes to help emphasize its rhythm |
| rhythm | the single thing that most distinguishes poetry from prose |
| narrative | a type of poetry that mainly tells a story |
| lyric | a type of poetry that mainly expresses the speaker’s feelings |
| figurative language | descriptive language intended to encourage the imagination |
| alliteration | the repetition of the beginning sounds of words, especially in poetry |
| rhyme | a close similarity in the final sounds of two or more words or lines of a verse of poetry. |
| personification | giving human characteristics to non-human characters or objects |
| onomatopoeia | words that represent the actual sounds they produce (i.e. splash, squish, buzz) |
| metaphors | a kind of figurative language that compares two different things by stating that one is the other |
| similes | a kind of figurative language that compares two different things using like or as |
| hyperbole | is an exaggerated form of expression in both poetry and prose |
| imagery | descriptive language that appeals to at least 1 of the senses |
| haiku | a type of poem with a 3 line 5-7-5 syllable pattern |
| limerick | a type of humorous poem with 3 lines and an aabba rhyming scheme |
| acrostic | basically a poem that uses the up and down letters of a poem to spell a word or phrase. So the first letter of each line could be pulled out to spell a word. |
| concrete | a type of poem that forms a shape |
| free verse | a poetic form/technique where the poet does not follow the conventions of any meter or rhyme |
| stanza | is similar to a paragraph but in a poem |
| ballad | a song like poem narrating a story in short stanzas. Traditionally, they are typically of unknown authorship, having been passed on orally from one generation to the next as part of the folk culture |
| sonnet | One of the most famous types of poetry. It has been popular with authors from Dante to Shakespeare. It typically contains 14 lines, typically with two rhyming stanzas known as a rhyming couplet at the end. |
| rhyming couplet | This type of poem has two lines of the same length that rhyme and complete one thought. |
| consonance | the repetition of consonant sounds WITHIN sentences either at the middle of end of words (not at the beginning) |
| idiom | a reginionally popular phrase that means something other than what it literally says |
| allusion | making reference to something else (usually from literature, or a line from a movie or someone famous, etc.) |
