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| Alliteration | repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of the words |
| Antithesis | reversal of words to state the opposite |
| Assonance | repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants in two or more different syllables |
| Ballad | a long narrative poem usually written in rhymed stanzas of four to six lines featuring strong meter and repetition |
| Caesura | a break in a line of peotry |
| Connotation | the emotional and social meaning of a word |
| Consonance | repetition of final consonant sound in stressed syllables with different vowel sounds |
| Couplet | two lines in a row with the same end rhyme |
| Denotation | dictionary definition of the word, literal |
| Dramatic | a poem that presents speech of one or more speakers in a dramatic situation |
| End Rhyme | rhyming words that fall at the end of two or more lines |
| English Sonnet | 14 line lyric poem consisting of three quatrains and a couplet usually rhymed abab cdcd efef gg |
| Figurative Language | language not interpreted literally |
| Formal Verse | follows fixed, established patterns of rhyme, meter, line and stanza structure |
| Free Verse | exhibits poetic language but does not follow a fixed pattern |
| Haiku | Japanese poem about nature, unrhymed three-line poem 5,7,5 |
| Kigo | a Japanese word that relates to a season |
| Imagery | poetic language rich in descriptive language |
| Limerick | English poetry, humorous in nature. lines 1,2,5 rhyme and have the same number of syllables, lines 3,4 rhyme and have the same number of syllables |
| Metaphor | comparison by stating that one is the same as the other |
| Metonymy | when something represents the whole or the whole represents the parts (the crown) |
| Narrative | a poem that tells a story |
| Ode | a lyric poem on a serious subject usually written in precise structure |
| Onomatopoeia | a word that imitates a sound |
| Ocymoron | apparently contradictory terms in conjunction |
| Parallelism | repetition of sentence structure and grammar |
| Personification | giving human qualities to non human things |
| Repetition | the use of any language or element more than once for emphasis |
| Rhyme Scheme | the pattern of rhym |
| Rhythm | stressed and unstressed syllables of a word |
| Simile | compares two things using "like" or "as" |
| Situational Irongy | characters are placed in an unforeseen position |
| Slant Rhyme | words that end in similar but not exactly the same sound |
| Stanza | grouping of lines in poetry |
| Synechdoce | part represents a whole (All hands on deck) |
| Tone | the poet's emotional attitude toward his or her subject |
| Trochee | a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable |
| True Rhyme | words that end in the same vowel and consonant sound |
| Verbal Irony | words express contrary truth or meaning (war is kind) |
| Hyperbole | Over exaggeration for emphasis |
