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Structure

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The words, lines, and the groups of lines are arranged.

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Lines

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The way most poetry is arranged in lines, or groupings of words.

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Stanza

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Logical sections of ideas, like paragraphs in an essay.

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Couplet

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A two-line stanza

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Tercet

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Three lines

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Quateain

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Four lines

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Rhyme Scheme

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The pattern of rhymes at the ends of lines

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Meter

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The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in the pattern.

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Foot

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Each unit of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem.

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Poetic Forms

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A poem's form is usually defined by its purpose and characterics

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Formal Verse

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Follows fixed, traditional patterns that may include a specific rhyme scheme, meter, line length, or stanza structure.

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Free Verse

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Uses poetic language, but does not follow a fixed pattern.

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Lyric Poetry

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Expresses the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker, often in very musical verse.

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Narrative Poetry

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Tells a story

Ex) ballads and epic poetry

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Dramatic Poetry

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Presents a drama in verse.

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Speaker

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Is the person or character who communicates the words of the poem.

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Imagery

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Create word pictures for readers

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Figurative Language

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describes and compares things in ways that are not meant to be taken literally

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Similies and Metaphor

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highlight a shared quality of two things that are otherwise different

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Similie

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uses the word like or as to compare two things

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Metephor

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compares by describing one thing as of it where another

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Extended Metaphor

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carries a metaphor throughout part or all of a peom

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Personification

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assigns human qualities to a non-human subject.

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Analogy

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explains, clarifies, or illustrates by drawing comparisons.

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Allusions

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are direct or implies references to people, places, events, literary works, or artworks.

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Sound Devices

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the sounds of words contribute to the musical quality of a poem.

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Alliteration

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the repetition of intail consonant

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Consonance Sounds

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the repetition of consonant sounds in stressed syllables with different vowel sounds

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Assonnace

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the repetition of vowel sounds in stressed syllables that do not rhyme

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Repetiton

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the repeated use of a word or phrase

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Onomatopoeia

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the use of words that imitate sounds

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Connotations

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are the ideas associated with that word beyond its denotation

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Denotation

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literal definition

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Tone

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the attitude the writer projects in a poem