Vocab Set 4

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Stanza

Back 1

A section of poetry, separation from the sections before and after it

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Lyric

Back 2

A type of poetry that expresses the poet's emotions

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Iambic Pentameter

Back 3

Ten syllable lines in which every line is stressed
Example: Although she feeds bread of bitterness

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Onomatopoeia

Back 4

The use of words that sound like what they mean
Example: boom, snap, yum, pow, crack, pop

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Internal Rhyme

Back 5

A rhyme that occurs within one line

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Free Verse

Back 6

Poetry with no set meter or rhyme scheme

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Meter

Back 7

The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in the lines of a poem

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Elegy

Back 8

A poem mourning the dead

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Alliteration

Back 9

A repetition of first consonants in a group of words
Example: She sells seashells down by the seashore

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End Rhyme

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Rhyming words that are at ends of their respective lines
Example:
Mary had a little lamb
Its fleece was white as snow
and everywhere that Mary went, the lamb was sure to go

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Epic

Back 11

A long poem narrating the adventures of a heroic figure

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Dramatic Monologue

Back 12

A poem with a fictional narrator, whose indentity the audience knows
Example: Abe Lincoln will be the narrator

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Couplets

Back 13

A pair of rhyming lines in poetry
Example:
Remember the poem America... last two lines rhyme

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Blank Verse

Back 14

Unrhymed line of poetry, usually in iambic pentameter

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Assonance

Back 15

Repetition of vowel sounds