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Alliteration |
The repetition of the same consonant sounds in a sequence of words, usually at the beginning Ex: "descending dew drops" |
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Assonance |
The repetition of internal vowel sounds in nearby words that do not end the same Ex: "asleep under a tree" |
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Couplet |
Two consecutive lines of poetry that usually rhyme and have the same meter |
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Feminine Rhyme |
a rhyme between stressed syllables followed by one or more unstressed syllables. (e.g., stocking / shocking, glamorous / amorous |
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Fixed form |
A poem that may be categorized by the pattern of it's lines, meter, rhythm, or stanzas. |
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Iamb |
Consists of one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable |
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Image |
A word, phrase or figure of speech that addresses the senses, suggesting mental pictures of sights, sounds, smells, tastes, feelings, or actions. |
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lyric poem |
a type of brief poem that expresses the personal emotions and thoughts of a single speaker. many types including: Dramatic monologue. elegy, haiku, ode, and sonnet |
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masculine rhyme |
describes the rhyming of single syllable words ex: grade , shade |
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metaphor |
a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without using "like" or "as" |
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Narrative Poem |
A poem that tells a story |
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Onomatopoeia |
a term referring to the use of a word that resembles the sound it denotes ex: buzz |
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Open Form |
(free verse) Does nor conform to established patterns of meter and rhyme |
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Personification |
When human characteristics are attributed to non-human things |
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Petrarchan / Italian sonnet |
divided into an octave which typically has the rhyme scheme of ABBAABBA followed by a sestet, which may have varying rhyme schemes |
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Shakespearean / English Sonnet |
three quatrains and a couplet, with a typical rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg |
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Sonnet |
A fixed form of lyric poetry that consists of 14 lines usually in iambic pentameter |
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Sestet |
A stanza consisting of six lines |
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sestina |
A type of fixed form poetry consisting of 36 lines of any length divided into 6 sestets and a three line concluding stanza called an envoy all stanzas having the same six words at the line-ends in six different sequences that follow a fixed pattern, and with all six words appearing in the closing three-line envoy. |
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Simile |
Makes a comparison using "like" or "as" |
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Symbol |
A person, object, image, word, or event that evokes a range of additional meaning |
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Rhyme |
The repetition of identical or similar concluding syllables in different words, most often at the end. |
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Theme |
Central meaning of a literary work. |
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Trochee |
Consists of one stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable |
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Quatrain |
a four line stanza |
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villanelle |
a nineteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout, consisting of five tercets and a quatrain, with the first and third lines of the opening tercet recurring alternately at the end of the other tercets and with both repeated at the close of the concluding quatrain.
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