| Term | Definition |
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| Alliteration | Repitition of Consonant sounds |
| Approximate Rhyme | Words that are similiar in sound but not exactly. Ex. send and when, air and there, sun and plum. |
| Assonance | Repitition of a Vowel sound within nonrhyming words |
| Consonance | Repitition of consonent sounds within and at the end of words |
| Contraction | a shortened form of a word or group of words, with the omitted letters often replaced in written English by an apostrophe. Ex. e'er for ever, isn't for is not. |
| Couplet | Two line unit |
| End Rhyme | Rhyme that occurs at the end of lines of poetry |
| End Stop | The line ends with a period or the feeling of a period |
| Enjambment | Running on of a sentence from one line to the next, with little or no pauses |
| Exact Rhyme | Rhyme in which the final accented vowel and all succeeding consonants or syllables are identical, while the preceding consonants are different, for example, great, late; rider, beside her; dutiful, unbeautiful. |
| Foot | A meter, one stressed and one or two unstressed syllables |
| Iambic Meter | An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable |
| imagery | Words describing the five senses |
| Inversion | The reversal of the normal order of words |
| Meter | The repitition of a regular rhythmic unit in a line of poetry |
| Octave | A rhythmic group of eight lines of verse |
| Pentameter | A verse line having five metrical feet |
| Personification | Human attributes are given to an object, Animal or Idea |
| Petrarchan Sonnet | A sonnet consisting of an octave and a sestet; A.k.a Italian sonnet |
| Quatrain | A four line stanza |
| Rhyme | Words rhyme when the sounds of the accented vowels and all succeding sounds are identical |
| Rhyme scheme | The pattern of an end ryhme in a poem |
| Sestet | A rhythmic group of six lines of verse |
| Shakespearean Sonnet | Three quatrains, or four-line units |
| Stanza | A group of lines that form a unit of poetry |
| Trochaic Meter | A stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable. |
| Turning point | When the interest and emotional intensity reach their highest point |
| Unstressed syllable | Part of the word that sounds softer when said aloud |
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