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| poetry | rhythmic, compressed language appeals to emotions |
| narrative poem | poem that tells a story |
| lyric poem | poem that tells the feelings or thoughts of a speaker |
| stanza | group of consecutive lines in poem that form a unit |
| rhyme | repetition of accented vowel sounds |
| rhyme scheme | pattern of end rhymes in a poem |
| end rhyme | rhymes at the end of lines |
| internal rhyme | rhymes within lines |
| rhyming couplet | 2 consecutive lines that end in same rhyming sound |
| onomatopoeia | words whose sounds imitate or suggest their meaning |
| examples of onomatopoeia | "buzz, crack, snap" |
| assonance | repeition of vowel sounds in words that are close together |
| example of assonance | "I can fly in the sky if I try." |
| alliteration | repetition of consonant sounds in words close together |
| example of alliteration | "Silly Sally sat sipping soda by the sea shore." |
| irony | contrast between expectations and reality |
| example of irony | kidnappers are afraid of child they have kidnapped (Ransom of Red Chief) |
| symbol | person, place, thing or event that has meaning in itself and also stands for something else |
| example of a symbol | red as a color and also meaning danger |
| sensory imagery | language that appeals to the senses |
| example of end rhyme | "I see a red fox. It sits in a box." |
| example of internal rhyme | "The fat cat sat on the book." |
