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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
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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
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