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| Alliteration | The same, beginning consonant sound in two or more words close together |
| Assonance | The same vowel sound in two or more wordds close together |
| Consonance | The same consonant sound in words close together. The repeating consonant sound may occure anywhere within the words. |
| Foot | Basic metrical unit; the most common feet are the iambic, trochaic, anapestic, dactylic, and spondaic. |
| Free verse | Poetry without end rhyme, set structures, or meter |
| Imagery | a mental picture |
| Limerick | A traditional humorous form consisting of five lines. Lines one, two, and five are long and rhyme; lines three and four are short and rhyme |
| Metaphor | The comparison between two unrelated nouns |
| Meter | Regular patterns of heavily and lightly stressed syllables. |
| Accented Syllables | a heavily stressed syllable in a poem written in meter |
| Unaccented syllable | lightly stressed syllable in a poem written in meter |
| Mood | the tone of a poem reflecting the authors attitudes, feelings, and perspective |
| Onomatopoeia | The formation of words that sound like or suggest the obects or actions being named. |
| Personification | The assignment of juman traits to thins, colors, qualities, and ideas |
| Poem | A compact piece of writing containing one or more poetic elements |
| Poetic elements | the fundamentals and foundation of poetr, e.g., metaphor, simile, personification ect. |
| Reptition (also called anaphora) | repeating the same words or phrases through a poem |
| Rhyme | Repetition of similar or identical sounds |
| End rhyme | is rhyme at the ends of lines of a poem |
| Exact rhyme | uses words with identical final sounds |
| Internal rhyme | means rhyme of words within lines of a poem |
| Near rhyme | uses words with similar but not identical, sounds at the ends of the words |
| Rhyme pattern | Scheme of rhyme in a poem; may occur regularly or in unique patterns |
| Couplet | is two lines of poetry that usually rhyme. |
| Triplet | is a three line stanza that usually rhymes |
| Quatrain | is a four line stanza usually with a set rhyme pattern |
| Visual Rhyme | uses words that look like, rather than soundl like, they rhyme |
| Scansion | the process of marking the metrical pattern of a poem |
| Simile | a comparison between two unrelated nouns using like or as to bridhe the connection |
| Sonnet | a traditional structure written in meter consisting of fourteen lines of three quatrains and a couplet |
| Stanza | a group of lines forming a structural division of a poem |
| Symbol | a sign or object representing a thing, a quality, or an idea |
| Verb | any class of words expressing an action performed or a stat of experience by the subject |
