Poetry Elements

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Traditional Verse

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Language arranged in lines, with a regular rhythm and often a definite rhyme scheme.

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Includes blank verse, which is unrhymed iambic pentameter verse.

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Free Verse

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Does away with regular rhythm and rhyme, although it is set in lines and does feature the language of poetry.

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Releases R&R

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Narrative poetry

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tells a story and has characters setting, and action

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A narrator tells...

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Lyric Poetry

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expresses personal thoughts and feelings

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Song's lyrics often express this of the singer

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Dramatic poetry

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presents characters who speak to other characters or to some unidentified listener

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Limerick

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a comic poem written in three long and 2 short lines, rhymed in the pattern: aabba

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comic

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Ballad

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a story told in verse and usually meant to be sung

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Repetition

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the repetition of a word to produce an effect in any form of literature

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Rhyme

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the repetition of sounds of words, usually, but not exclusively, at the end of lines of poetry
1. End Rhyme
2. Internal Rhyme

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Rhyme, time, lime, crime

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Onomatopoeia

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the use of a word whose sound in some degree imitates or suggests the meaning

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buzz, clang, purr

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Rhythm

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the pattern of stressed and unstressed sounds in a line of poetry

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Alliteration

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the repetition of beginning consonant sounds in a line or in several lines of poetry

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Rhyme scheme

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the pattern of rhymes in a poem

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Shakesperean sonnets: ababcdcdefefgg

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Assonance

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the repetition of similar vowel sounds, usually close together, in a group of words

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fleet feet sweep by sleeping geeks.

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Consonance

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the repetition of consonant sounds within a group of words

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begging and dragging

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Figurative Language

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any language that is not intended to be interpreted in a strict, literal sense

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Metaphor

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a comparison between two unlike things with the intent of giving added meaning to one of them

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I am a rock; I am an island

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Implied Metaphore

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does not directly state that one thing is another. Instead, implied metaphors suggest comparisons

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Extended metaphor

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a metaphor that is extended through several lines or stanzas of poetry

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Simile

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a comparison between two unlike things, using like or as

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he was swift as an arrow

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Personification

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a figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human characteristics

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Idiom

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a figure of speech that is an expression common to a particular language.

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Hyperbole

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an obvious exaggeration for effect

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Imagery

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word "pictures"; a description that appeals to any one or any combination of the five senses

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Diction

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a writer's choice of words or expressions

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Dialect

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a representation of the speech patterns of a particular region or social groups

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black, brooklyn or southern

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refrain

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repetition of a line or phrase that is repeated at regular intervals in a poem or song, usually at the end of a line or stanza

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Poetic license

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liberty taken by a poet in deviating from rule, conventional form, logic, or fact, in order to produce a desired effect

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Inversion

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a reversal of the usual order of words to achieve a certain effect.

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"like the leaves of the forest when summer is green" instead of "summer is green, like the leaves of the forest."

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stanza

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a group of lines forming a unit in a poem

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Allusion

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a reference in one work of literature to another work of literature, art, or a historical event

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Connotation

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all the emotions and associations that a word or phrase arouses; the suggested meaning of a word

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Denotation

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literal meaning of a word

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paraphrase

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the act of putting a writing into one's own words

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Symbol

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any object, person, place, or action that has a meaning in itself and that also stands for something larger than itself, such as a quality, an attitude, a belief, or a value

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Tone

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the attitude a writer takes toward his or her subject, characters, and readers

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tone of voice

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Parallelism

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the use of phrases, clauses, or sentences that are similar or complementary in meaning or in structure

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Petrarchan Sonnet

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a 14-line lyric poem consisting of two parts: octave and sestet - named for the medieval italian poet Petrarch who wrote a series of sonnets to his love, laura

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Shakespearean Sonnet

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a 14-line lyric poem consisting of 3 quatrains and a conclusion couplet

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Quatrain

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usually, a stanza or poem of four lines; may also be any group of 4 lines unified by a rhyme scheme.

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Couplet

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two consectuvie lines of poetry that rhyme