| Term | Definition |
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| alliteration | the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words |
| apostrophe | when a poet address' someone and gives them a comand or advice |
| assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds |
| figurative language | words that create pictures in a persons mind |
| foot | A measurable, patterned unit of poetic rhythm |
| hyperbole | exaggeration used for effect |
| iamb | one foot that is stressed or unstressed |
| iambic pentameter | a poetic meter that is made up of 5 stressed syllables each followed by an unstressed syllable |
| irony | a litterary term that contrasts what is expected with what happens |
| quatrin | a four line stanza |
| refrain | the chorus of the poem or the part thats repeated |
| rhyme couplet | the pairing of two lines that rhyme |
| rhyme scheme | the pattern of end rhymes in a poem |
| scansion | The process of measuring the stresses in a line of verse in order to determine the metrical pattern of the line. |
| simile | a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between two different things. is used as an indirect comparison of something |
| sonnet | a fourteen line poem with a fixed rhyme scheme |
| stanza | a set number of lines forming a pattern |
| lyric poem | a poem that expresses felling |
| metaphor | a figure of speech that directly compares two things that are different |
| meter | a set number of stressed unstressed syllables in each line of a poem |
| narrative poem | a written work with feelings that tells a story |
| pentameter | five feet of a metrical pattern |
| personification | giving human characteristics to non humans |
| poetry | written work that has rhythem |
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