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| Alliteration | The repetition of consonant sounds in words that are close together. |
| Assonance | The repetition of vowel sounds in words that are close together. |
| Ballad | A song or poem that tells a story, usually about a tragedy or an advernture. |
| Blank Verse | Poem that has no rhyme, but does have meter. |
| Concrete Poem | A poem shaped to look like its subject. |
| Couplet | Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme. |
| Figurative Language | Imaginative language used for descriptive effect and not meant to be taken as the literal truth. |
| Free Verse | Poetry without a regular meter or rhyme scheme. |
| Haiku | A three-line poem, usually on the subject of nature, with five syllables each in the first and third lines and seven syllables in the second line. |
| Hyperbole | A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect. |
| Idiom | An expression that you cant translate word for word or it doesn’t make sense. |
| Imagery | Language that appeals to the senses. |
| Limerick | A light humorous, nonsensical, or bawdy verse of five anapestic lines usually with the rhyme scheme aabba. 5 lines; 1,2,5 - long; 3, 4 - short. |
| Lyric Poem | A poem that expresses the feelings or thoughts of a speaker rather than telling a story. |
| Metaphor | A comparison between two unlike things in which one thing becomes another thing. |
| Meter | A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry. |
| Narrative Poem | A poem that tells a story. |
| Onomatopoeia | The use of words whose sounds imitate or suggest their meaning. |
| Ode | A lyric poem with complex stanza forms. |
| Personification | A figure of speech in which an object or animal is spoken of as if it had human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes. |
| Poetry | A kind of rythmic, compressed language that uses figures of speech and imagery designed to appeal to our emotions and imaginations. |
| Quatrain | A group of four consecutive lines of poetry that form a unit. |
| Refrain | A repeated sound, word, phrase, line, or group of lines. |
| Repetition | The repeated use of sounds, words, phrases, or lines. |
| Rhyme Scheme | The pattern of end rhymes in a poem. |
| Simile | A comparison between two unlike things, using a word such as like, as, than, or resembles. |
| Stanza | A group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit. |
| Style | The way a writer uses language. |
| Tone | The attitude a writer takes toward his or her subject, characters, and audience. |
