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| Rhythm | sound patterns of accents in a poem |
| Meter | a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables |
| Iambic | u / unstressed, stressed rhythm |
| Trochee | / u stressed, unstressed rhythm |
| Free verse | poem with no rhythm of rhyme |
| End rhyme | rhyme at the end of the line |
| internal rhyme | rhyme within a line |
| approximate rhyme | a slight change from what we expect to hear |
| Rhyme scheme | a predictable pattern of end rhymes using alphabet letters |
| stanza | a unit of a certain number of lines of poetry |
| onomatopoeia | words that imatate the sound of things (buzz, hiss) |
| alliteration | repetition of the same letter in several wards(Susie sells sea shells) |
| refrain | a repeated sound, word, phrase, or group of lines usually found at the end of a stanza |
| figure of speech | say one thing but mean another |
| simile | a comparison of two unlike things using words such as: as, like than, or resembles |
| metaphor | a direct comparison of two unlike things |
| extended metaphor | a metaphor that extends for several lines |
| haiku | a 3-lined Japanese verse poem. 1st and 3rd lines have 5 syllables, 2nd line has 7 syllables about a single aspect of nature |
| concrete poem | a poem that's shape suggests the poem's subject. Arrange words, punctuation, and lines to form a visual picture |
| limerick | a humorous, rhyming, 5-lined poem withh a specific rhyme and rhythm. s beatsin lines1,2,and 5; 2 beats in lines 3 and 4, with a rhyme scheme of aabba |
