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20 Cards in this Set
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Narrative poetry
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Poem that tells a story
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Ballad
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tells a story about a single historic or legendary person
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Lyric poem
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expresses a writer's thoughts and feelings about a subject
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sonnet
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14 line poem, written in a rhyming iambic pentameter
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dramatic poem
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when the teller of the story is clearly not the poet
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repetition
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a word or phrase used over and over again
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refrain
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when repetition appears in the same position in all or many of the stanzas
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rhythm
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a beat in the poem
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alliteration
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repetition of initial consonant sounds
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assonance
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the repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants in 2 or more stressed syllables
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onomatopoeia
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use of words that imitate sounds
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simile
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a comparison between 2 unlike subjects using like or as
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metaphor
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speaking of something as thought it were something else
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personification
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giving non human objects human characteristics
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stanza
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a group of lines in a poem
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meter
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a rhythmical pattern
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couplet
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a pair of rhyming lines, usually of the same length and meter
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Quatrain
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stanza of four lines with a rhythm
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pentameter
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a verse with 5 foot lines
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Iamb
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metrical foot made of stressed and unstressed syllables
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