| A | B |
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| narrative poetry | poetry that tells a story |
| lyric poetry | poetry that describes thoughts, observations, or emotions. It does not tell a story. |
| onomatopoeia | words that stand for the sounds they make; ex. tick tock, pop |
| alliteration | repetition of consonant sounds throughout a line; ex. they went and walked through the wildest woods |
| repetition | repeating a word or phrase several times in a row to accent it |
| refrain | a line or phrase repeated after each stanza |
| stanza | a group of lines that form a verse or unit |
| rhyme scheme | the pattern of rhyming pairs at the end of each line; ex. aabbacc |
| limerick | humorous Irish 5 line poem with an aabba rhyme scheme |
| haiku | three line Japanese poem with a 5, 7, 5 syllable pattern |
| concrete poetry | poetry written in the shape of it's subject |
| free verse | poetry that is free of a formal rhyme scheme |
| rhyme | words at the ends of lines that have the same ending sounds |
| rhythmn | a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that produces a beat |
| poetry | a form of rhythmic compressed writing that uses imagery and other literary devices |
| portmanteau word | a word made from parts of two other words that combines those ideas; ex. smoke+fog=smog |
