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24 Cards in this Set
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Poetry
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Literary work written in metrical form that is a genre of literature.
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Form
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The way a poem looks- the arrangment of words on the page.
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Lines
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Poems are made of lines which may or may not be sentences.
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Stanza
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A nuber of lines that divide a poem into sections. A group of lines in a poem.
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Free Verse
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Form of poetry with no pattern or form. Does not ryhme portrays images or feelings.
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Concrete
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A poem written in the shape of something that visually reinforces the meaning.
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Onamatopoeia
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Use of words that imitate sounds.
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Rhyme
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The repetion of words at the end of words.
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Meter
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A rhythmic pattern that is repeated.
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Repetion
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The use of sounds, words, or phrases that is repeated.
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Alliteration
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The repetition of consonats sounds at the beginning of two or more words.
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Imagery
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The use of words pictures in writing to make a descriptive, vivid idea through colorful language.
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Similie
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A comparison of two unlike things using "like or as".
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Metaphor
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Comparison of two unlike things without using the words "like or "as".
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Personification
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Giving an inanimate object life like qualities.
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Verse
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A line of metrical writing (one of the lines of a poem).
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Hyperbole
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An exaggeration
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Abstract
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A term used to describe a word like "freedom or "honesty".
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Lyrical
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Personal and descriptive poetry with no particular length. This form could be words to a song.
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Couplet
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Two lines that end with words that rhyme.
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Foot
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Each group of stresses with a line of poetry.
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Rhyme Scheme
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A pattern of end rhyme in a stanza or poem. Pattern is charted by assigning a letter of the alphebet beginning with "A". Lines that rhyme are given the next letter.
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Rhythm
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A Beat or Pattern of sound created by stressed or unstressed syllables. A poems rhythm is sometimes called it's beat.
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Symbolism
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Using an object to represent an idea.
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