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| alliteration | two or more words having the same initial sound in a line |
| assonance | resemblance in vowel sounds |
| ballad | a narrative poem of folk origin intending to be sung |
| character | a person in a poem |
| cinquain | a five line verse or poem |
| couplet | two successive line of poetry usually in the same meter and rhyme |
| epic | a long poem about a hero |
| free verse | poetry without meter that may or may not rhyme |
| haiku | a three-line Japanese poem usually about nature |
| imagery | a picture created with words |
| quatrain | a four line poem or verse |
| personification | giving human qualities to inanimate objects |
| metaphor | a comparison between two unlike things |
| meter | measure rhythm characteristic of verse |
| lyric | poetry that is representative of music in its sound patterns |
| narrative poem | a poem that tells a story |
| poetry | a form of writing that uses figurative language and symbolism and is usually intense and condensed |
| onomatopoeia | words that sounds like what they mean |
| implied theme | suggested underlying meaning |
| refrain | a phrase or verse repeated at intervals throughout a poem |
| sonnet | a 14 line poem with an octave and a sestet which states and resolves one theme |
| theme | the underlying meaning or message of a work of art |
| rhythm | the beat created by the words in a line |
| stanza | divisions of a poem composed of two or more lines |
| title | an identifying name |
| slant rhyme | assonance or consonance |
| symbol | something in literature used to stand for something else |
| speaker | the point of view from which a story is told |
| simile | a comparison between to unlike things using like or as |
| tone | manner of expression in speech or writing |
| rhyme | a regular correspondence of sounds especially at the end of lines |
| rhyme scheme | the arrangement of rhymes in a poem or stanza |
| Shakespearean sonnet | a 14 line poem in iambic pentameter with a rhyme scheme of abab, cdcd, efef, gg |
