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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 ballad | a narrative composition rhythmic verse suitable for singing |
| concrete poetry | poem describing things as they are |
| consonance | repetition of consonants especially at the end of stressed syllable |
| dramatic monologue | poem full of emotion with one consistent voice |
| dramatic poetry | poetry in which action occurs |
| elegy | poem expressing sorrow for someone who's dead |
| figurative language | language in which rhetorical devices are used |
| literal language | language to be taken with dictionary definition |
| haiku | unrhymed verse form having three lines containing five, seven, and five syllables, in that order, Japanese |
| ode | lyric poem marked by exaltation of feeling, varying length of line and complexity of stanza form |
| refrain | regularly occurring phrase or verse especially at the end of each stanza |
| rhyme | one of two or more words corresponding in sound |
| end rhyme | occurs in last syllables of verses |
| internal rhyme | occurs in the middle of a line |
| rhyme scheme | arrangement of rhymes in stanza or poem |
| rhythm | ordered recurrent alternation of strong and weak elements in the flow of sound and silence in speech |
| iamb | metrical foot consisting of one short syllable followed by one long syllable or one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable |
| trochee | one long syllable followed by one short syllable or one stressed syllable followed by one unstressed syllable |
| meter | arranged and measured rhythm in verse |
| tetrameter | a line of verse consisting of four dipodies or four metrical feet |
| pentameter | a line of verse consisting of five metrical feet |
| scan | to read a mark to show metrical structure |
| sonnet | fixed verse form consisting of 14 lines, 5 foot iambic rhyming |
| Shakespearean sonnet | Iambic pentameter, rhyme scheme a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d, e-f-e-f, g-g |
| stanza | vision of poem, series of lines arranged together in meter or rhyme |
| quatrain | group of four lines of a verse |
| verse | a line in poetry |
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