Poetry Terms Test III
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matthartstein on February 11, 2010
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Mrs. Cowan.
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Italian | English |
|---|---|
 Persona | Mask or voice assumed by a writer. When a poet is not the speaker of a poem, the poet is a persona. |
| Rhyme | Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem. |
| End Rhyme | Rhyming that occurs at the end of a line. |
| Internal Rhyme | Rhyming that occurs within the lines. |
| Rhyme Scheme | The pattern of rhymed lines in a poem. |
| Approximate Rhyme | Words that sound similar but do not rhyme exactly. |
| Rhythm | Musical quality in language produced by repetition. |
| Sonnet | Fourteen-line lyric poem, usually written in iambic pentameter. |
| Stanza | Group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem. |
| Oxymoron | A combination of opposites. |
| Pun | A play on words that are identical or similar in sound by have sharply diverse meanings. |
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