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Alliteration: The repitition of consonants sounds, most often at the beginning of words.
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Assonance: Is the repitition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants stressed by syllables, as in blade and maze
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Ballads: Are songlike poems that tell a story, often dealing with adventure and romance.
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Concrete: Poems are shaped to look like their subjects. The poet arranges the lines to create a picture in the page.
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Consonance: Is the repition of similar consonant sounds at the ends of accented syllables, as in wind and sand
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Dialect: A form of kanguage spoken by people in a particular region or group.
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Dialogue: Conversation between characters, usually set off by quotation marks do indicate a speaker's exact words.
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Diction: The selection of words in a literary work to convey meaning, to suggest the authoe's attitude, and to create images.
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Figurative language: Imaginative language used for descriptive effect and not to be taken as the literal truth.
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Free verse: Poetry is defined by its lack of strict structure. It has no regular meter, rhyme, fixed line length, or specific stanza pattern.
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Haiku: Is a three-line Japanese verse form. The first and third lines each have five syllables and the second line has seven.
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Imagery: Language that appeals to the five senses-touch, sight, hearing, taste, or smell.
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Inference: A conclusion that can be drawn from the available information.
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Limericks: Are humurous, rhyming, five line poems with a specific rhythm pattern and rhym scheme.
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Lyric: Poetry expresses the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker, often in highly musical verse.
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Lyric poem: A poem that expresses a personal thought or emotion.
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Metaphor: A figure of speech that compares two basically different things.
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Meter: Is the rhythmical pattern in a poem
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Mood: The feeling created in the reader by a selection.
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Myth: A fictional tale that explains the actins of Gods or heroes or the origins of the elements of nature.
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Narrative: Poetry tells a story in verse. Often have elements similar to this in short stories such as plot and character.
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Onomatopeia: The use of words that imitate sounds.
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Personification: A figure of speech in which an animal, object or idea is given characteristics of a human being.
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Prose: The kind of writing that is used in short stories, novels, works of nonfiction, journakism, and so forth.
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Repitition: The repeated use of sounds, words, phrases or lines.
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Rhyme: The repitition of the same or similar sounds in words that appear near each other in a poem.
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Rhyming couplets: Are pairs of rhyming lines, usually of the same meter and length.
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Rhythm: The pattern of beats made by stressed and unstressed syllables in the lines of a poem.
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Simile: A figure of speech that used the words like or as to compare two seemingly unlike things directly.
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Sound devices: Enhance a poem's mood and meaning
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Symbol: Is anything that represents something else. For example, a dove a common symbol for peace.
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Theme: The central idea of a literary work, usually expressed as a generalization about life.
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Tone: The writer's attitude toward his or her audience and subject might be serious, formal, informal, plqyful, bitter, or ironic.
