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rhythm
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beat created by sounds of words in a poem
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What is rhythm created by?
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meter, rhyme, or alliteration
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meter
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pattern of stressed (strong) and unstressed (weak) syllables - by foot/feet - 2 or three syllables - count syllables
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implied metaphor
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comparison is hinted at, but not clearly stated
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hyperbole
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exaggeration
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litotes
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understatement
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definition of poetry
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a type of literature that expresses ideas, feelings, or tells a story in a specific form (usually using lines and stanzas)
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poet
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the poet is the author of the poem
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speaker
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the speaker of the poem is the narrator
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form
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the appearance of words on a page
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line
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the words on the poem on a line
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couplet
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2 line stanza
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triplet
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3 line stanza
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quatrain
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4 line stanza
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quintet
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5 line stanza
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sestet
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6 line stanza
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septet
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7 line stanza
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octave
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8 line stanza
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types of feet
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iambic
trochaic anapestic dactylic |
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metrical lines
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the amount of unstressed and stressed syllables
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monometer
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one foot on a line
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dimeter
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two feet on a line
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trimeter
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three feet on a line
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tetrameter
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four feet on a line
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pentameter
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five feet on a line
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hexameter
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six feet on a line
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heptameter
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seven feet on a line
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octometer
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eight feet on a line
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refrain
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a sound, word, phrase, or line repeated again in a poem
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lyric poem
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short, 1st person, emotional, musical, no story
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ballad
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narrative story, iambic trimeter or tetrameter
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ballad meter
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three stanzas - 12 lines total
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haiku
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Japanese poem
5 syllables 7 syllables 5 syllables |
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free verse poetry
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does not have stressed and unstressed syllables - more modern
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blank verse poetry
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no rhyme, lines of iambic pentameter
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rhyme
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words sound alike
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end rhyme
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word at the end of one line rhymes
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internal rhyme
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a words inside a line rhymes with another on a same line
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near rhyme
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same vowel or same consonant sound, but never both
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rhyme scheme
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pattern of rhyme
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onomatopeia
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must spell - sound of words
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alliteration
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constant first letters in a poem
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consonance
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similar to alliteration
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assonance
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repeated vowel sounds (ex: Lake Fate Bake Fade)
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physical "picture"
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concrete poem, stanzas, lines
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mental "picture"
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metaphor, figurative language, simile, extended metaphor, implied metaphor
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slant rhyme
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a word slightly rhymes with another word
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true rhyme
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two words rhyme perfectly with each other
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caesura
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pause in a poem
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enjambed
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run-on line
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end-stopped
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stops at the end of each line
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villanelle
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five tercets and a quatrain
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sestina
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six six-line stanzas and a tercet
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pantoum
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quatrains
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ballade
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three eight-line stanzas and a quatrain
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two-line stanzas
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couplets
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heroic couplet
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AA BB CC etc.
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triplet
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(tercets) AAA BBB CCC etc.
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haiku
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5-7-5 syllable count
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ballad stanza
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xAxA xBxB xCxC etc. four-line stanza
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three couplets
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six-line stanza - AABBCC DDEEFF etc.
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sonnet
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fourteen lines
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English or Shakespearean Sonnet
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ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
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Italian or Petrarchan Sonnet
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ABBAABBA CDECDE
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spenserian
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ABABBCBCCDCDEE
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Eugene Onegin stanza
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ABABCCDDEFFEGG - iambic tetrameter
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idiom
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a group of words that have a figurative meaning
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synecdoche
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a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa, as in Cleveland won by six runs
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ballad
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a poem that tells a story
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cinquain
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poems that are five lines in length
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couplet
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a two line stanza
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haiku
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Japanese poems of three lines that present a picture of nature
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limerick
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a humorous verse of five lines
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lyric
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a short poem that expresses personal feelings (sound)
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sonnet
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a fourteen line poem that states a poet's personal feelings
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simile
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a direct comparison using "like" or "as" (2 unlike items or people)
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metaphor
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an implied comparison not using "like" or "as"
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personification
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an inanimate object or idea is given human qualities
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oxymoron
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words put together that are opposites
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symbol
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an act or thing that represents more than itself
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onomatopoeia
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the sound of the word makes you think of it meaning
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alliteration
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repeated use of words that begin with similar sounds
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end rhyme
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the rhyming words at the end of lines of poetry
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quatrain
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a four line stanza
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stanza
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a division in a poem named for how many lines it contains
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heroic couplet
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two lines of verse that rhyme
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triplet (turcet)
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a three line stanza
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rhyme
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the matching of sounds or syllables between lines
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meter
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the rhythm or pattern of accented or unaccented syllables
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apostrophe
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an exclamatory passage in a speech or poem addressed to a person
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