Poetry Terms

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lyricdal poem

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a poem that expresses feelings of the poet

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narrative poem

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a poem that tells a story

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dramatic voice:
appositive

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when the poet speaks to something that connot answer

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dramatic voice:
persona or masks

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when the poet takes on the personality of an oblect and speaks as the object

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dramatic voice:
conversation

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dialogue between 2 voices like listening to a radio conversation

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rhyme:
end rhyme

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the most common type, which occurs at the end of the line

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rhyme:
internal rhyme

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occurs at some place after the beginning and before the end of a line

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rhyme:
beginning rhyme

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occurs in the first sylable

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Rhyme scheme

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the pattern in which rhyme sounds occur in a stanza (ababbcbcc)

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Rhythm

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a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables or the recurrence o specific sounds

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stanza:couplet

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a grouping of lines in a poetry; two lined that rhyme

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tercet

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a group of three lines tha may be put together in varying patterns

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quatrain

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four lines that come in many different patterns

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sestet

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six line stansa that can be made up of three couplets, a couplets and a quatrain, two tercets, or other patterns

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septer

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seven line stanza can be made up of quatrains and terects

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actaves

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an eight line stanza might have four couplets

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Ballad

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ballads begin as oral stories passed down from generation to generation

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Repetition

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careful choice of words of phrases establishes a pattern that appeals to our ears, a word of phase used seversal times helps to creat music in a poem

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Alliteration

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the constant repeating of the same sound at the beginning of a succession of words;; peter piper pickea a peck of pickled peppers

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initial alliteration

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begins a work

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hidden of internal alliteration

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found within a word

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Onomatopoeia

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using words or creating pharses of words that seem to imitate sounds;; bang,hiss,scratch, zoom, ding-dong, etc

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Off Rhyme

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often called half rhyme, near rhyme, slant rhyme used at the end of a line, usually carries the same basic sound

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Consonance

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when final consonants in words agree;; fast, last, past

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Assonance

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repetition of same or similar vowel sounds in syllables that end with different consonant sounds

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Figurative Language

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an intentional departure from the normal order, construction, or meaning of words

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simile

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compars one thing to another using like of as

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metaphor

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saying that one thing IS something else

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personification

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giving human qualities to something tht does noe, in realiy, have these characteristics

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hyperbole

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an wxaggeratioin

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haiku

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having to deal with nature

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limerick

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has a character , problem, and resolution

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cinquain , traditional

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syllables