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| Sonnet | A fourteen line poem that follows one of a number of different rhyme themes |
| Free Verse | Poetry that avoids use of regular rhyme, rhythm, meter, or division into stanzas |
| Lyric Verse | A highly musical verse that expresses the emotions of a speaker |
| Stanza | A group of lines in a poem |
| Alliteration | The repetition of initial consonant sounds |
| Assonance | The repetition of vowel sounds in stressed syllables that end with different consonant sounds |
| Onomatopoeia | The use of words or phrases that sound like the things to which they refer (ex: click, snap, and pow) |
| Metaphor | A figure of speech in which one thing is spoken or written about as if it were another |
| Simile | A comparison using like or as |
| Couplet | Two lines |
| Quatrain | Four lines |
| Rhythm | The pattern of beats or stresses in a line of verse or prose |
| Prose | Broad term used to describe all writing that is not drama or poetry |
| Diction | careful choice of words |
| Poetry | work that focuses on expression thorugh creative use of words, distinct style and structure |
| Personification | giving human characteristics to non human objectes |
| allegory | work that uses figures and objects to represent an idea everyone can relate to |
| symbolism | an object that stands for something else |
| rhyme scheme | a pattern of rhyme in a poem |
