Poetry Vocabulary

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Stanza

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One unit of a poem , composed of two or more lines uaually characterized by a common pattern of meter , rhythm, and number of lines

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Rhythm

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Is a repetition of stresses and unstressed syllables

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Foot

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A foot is a unit of meter, consisting of a combination of stressed and unstressed syllables

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Meter

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Is recurring pattern of stressed (accented & long) and unstressed syllables in lines of a set length

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Sight Rhyme

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Words which are similar in spelling but different in pronunciation, like mow and how or height and weight.

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Slant Rhyme

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Is known as a half-rhyme or imperfect rhyme , refers to words that almost rhyme or appear to the eye to do so
Example: how, mow

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Identical Rhyme

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An Identical rhyme uses the same word to rhyme with itself however may hold a different meaning.
Example: life , wife

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End Rhyme

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is when the last word of a line in a poem rhymes with the last word of another line in a poem.

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Internal Rhyme

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rhyme between a word within a line and another word either at the end of the same line or within another line
Example: I went to town to buy a gown. / I took the car and it wasn’t far.

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Rhyme Scehme

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is the pattern of rhyming lines in a poem

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Imagery

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Imagery in poetry is what the words of the poem make the reader 'see' in their imagination. it is the colors, sounds, and sometimes feelings evoked by the poem.

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Symbolism

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Symbolism is the technique of describing objects and giving them with new meanings

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Alliteration

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When two or more words in a poem begin with the same letter or sound.

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Simile

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Simile is when you compare two nouns (persons, places or things) that are unlike, with "like" or "as."

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Metaphor

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is when you use two nouns and compare or contrast them to one another. Unlike simile, you don't use "like" or "as" in the comparison.