| Term | Definition |
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| syntax | gramatical order of words in a sentence of line of verse or dialogue. normal syntax is :subject, verb, object |
| style | the way an author chooses words, arranges them in sentences or in lines of dialogue or verse, and develop ideas and actions with descriptions, imagery, and other literary techniques |
| rhythm | Musical quality in language, produced by repitittion. Rhyme occurs natually in all forms of spoken and written language. poems written in meter crate rhythm by stict pattern of stressed and unstressed sullables. writers can also creat rhythm by repeating gramatical stuctures, by using pauses, varing line lengths, balancing long and short word phrases. |
| rhyme | repitition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem. The mose common type of rhyme, end rhym, occurs at the end of a line |
| meter | rhythm as given by division into parts of equal time |
| stanza | a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem |
| quatrain | a stanza of four lines |
| couplet | 2 consecutive lines of poetry that form a unit, often emphasized by rhythm of rhyme, |
| tercet | three line stanza |
| lyric (poetry) | poetry that expresses a speakers emotions or thoughts and does not tell a story, |
| ballad | narrative poem written in four line stanzas, charactezed by swift action and narrated in a direct style. song or song-like poem that tells a story. ballads often tell stories that have tragic endings. most ballads have regular pattern of rhyme and rhythm and use simple language and repetition. |
| refrain | repeated word, phrase, line or group of lines. though refrains are usually associated with poetry and sonds, they are sometimes used in prose especially in speeches. Regrains creat rhythm and may also build suspense or emphasize important words or ideas. |
| free verse | poetry that does not have a regulare meter or rhyme scheme |
| open form | type of structure or form in poetry characterized by freedom from regularity and consitency in such elements as rhyme. line length. metrical pattern. and overall poetic structure |
| closed form | type of structure or form in poetry characterized by regularity and consitency in such elements as rhyme. line length. metrical pattern. and overall poetic structur |
| irony | contrast or discrepency between expectation and reality. in verbal irony a speaker says one thing but means something else. in situational irony what actually happens is the opposite of wat is thought to happen. Dramatic irony is wen the reader or audience knows something important that the characters dont know. |
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