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| poetry | words arranged in metrical pattern, often using rhymed verse in an imaginative style |
| stanza | a group of lines forming a unit. The stanzas in a poem are separated by a space. |
| line | is a word or row of words that may or may not form a complete sentence |
| rhyme | the repetition of the same vowel sound at the end of 2 or more lines |
| rhythm | Rhythm is the metrical beat or pattern of sound created by the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line |
| meter | the measurement and marking of the stresses and unstressed sounds in a line, usually measured as a foot |
| iambic | a foot consisting of an initial unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable |
| foot | 1 unit of a stressed and unstressed syllable |
| pentameter | a line of verse containing 5 metrical feet |
| diction | the choice of words by an author or poet |
| narrative poetry | is a poem that tells a story |
| huikus | traditional Japanese haiku is an unrhymed poem that contains exactly 17 syllables, arranged in 3 lines of 5, 7, 5 syllables each |
| sonnet | a 14-line poem |
| free verse | is poetry that has no fixed pattern of meter, rhyme, line length, or stanza arrangement |
| couplet | 2 lines of poetry in a stanza |
| triplet | 3 lines of poetry in a stanza |
| quatrain | 4 lines of poetry in a stanza |
| quintrain | 5 lines of poetry in a stanza |
| sestet | 6 lines of poetry in a stanza |
| prose | the normal every day way we speak. Poetry is not written in prose. |
