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Poetry |
Writing, written in stanzas, with language especially chosen for sound, beauty and power to make vivid mental pictures |
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Prose |
The ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse; writing not classified as poetry. |
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Narrator |
One who relates a series of events. |
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Free Verse |
Poetry composed of either rhymed or unrhymed lines that have no set meter. It does not have regular meter, rhyme, fixed line length, or a specific stanza pattern. |
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Line |
A row of words in a poem. |
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Stanza |
Two or more lines of poetry that together form one of the divisions of a poem. The stanzas of a poem are usually of the same length and follow the same pattern of meter and rhyme. |
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Rhythm |
The "beat" in a poem; the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line. |
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Figurative Language |
A form of language use in which writers and speakers mean something other than the literal meaning of their words (e.g. hyperbole, metaphor, idiom and simile). |
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Hyperbole |
A figure of speech that uses an incredible exaggeration, or overstatement for effect. |
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Idiom |
An expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its works. Examples: "Let the cat out of the bag", "as blind as a bat". |
