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| poetry | characterized by rhythm, rhyme (sometimes) and stanzas as opposed to prose |
| rhyme | the repetition of sounds- usually occurs at the end of lines |
| rhythm | the pattern of stressed and unstressed sounds within a line of poetry- the beat |
| narrative poem | a poem that tells a story |
| Haiku | an unrhymed Japanese poem referring in some way to a natural object or scene, within a praticular season, in seventeen syllables arranges in three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables |
| limerick | a light, humorous poem with five lines that has a rhyme scheme of aabba |
| assonance/consonance | an imperfect rhyme in which the stressed vowels or consonants correspons (assonance=vowels; consonance= consonants) |
| hyperbole | use of extreme exaggeration for effect |
| idiom | a group of words with a special meaning all of its own that has little to do with the real meaning of each word |
| pun | a play on words, humorous use of different meanings of the same word or of similar sounding words with different meanings |
| synonyms | words that have nearly the same meaning |
| antonyms | words that have opposite meanings |
| homonyms | includes both homophones and homographs |
| homographs | words that have the same spelling but different meanings and pronunciations |
| homophones | words that have the same sound but different meanings and spellings |
| jargon | specialized vocabularies for hobbies, sports, professions, etc |
| prefixes | word parts added to the beginning of a word to change its meaning |
| suffixes | word parts added to the end of a word to change its meaning |
| ballad | song or poem telling in a direct and dramatic manner some popular story usually derived from a tragic incident in local history or legend in four line verses |
| ode | serious poem in a dignified style usually honoring some person or event |
| stanza | a unit in poetry of two or more linesusually containing a fixed rhyme, rhythm, and number of lines, comparble to a paragraph in a story |
| epic | a long narrative poem about the adventures of a great hero |
| free verse | poetry that has an irregular rhythmic pattern or none at all |
| blank verse | poetry that does not rhyme |
| flashback | a section of a literary work that interrupts the sequence of events to relate an event from an earlier time |
| lyric | a poem with a single speaker who expresses his or her feelings about a subject |
