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alliteration: repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words
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Assonance: repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants in stressed syllables
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ballads: songlike poems that tell a story often dealing w/ adventure and/or romance
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concrete poems: poems that are shaped to look like their subject; the poet arranges the lines to create a picture on the page
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Consonance: the repetition of consonant sounds within or at the end of accented syllables, e.g., east, west, best, test, trust, burst
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figurative language: writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally, used to state ideas in new ways
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free verse: poetry with a lack of strict structure. It consists of lines of poetry that do not have a regular rhythm, do not rhyme, and have no fixed line length, or specific stanza pattern
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Haiku: an unrhymed Japanese poem consisting of three lines with five, seven, and five syllables, respectively
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limericks: humorous 5-line poems with a specific rhythm pattern and rhyme scheme
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lyric poetry: poetry that expresses the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker, often in highly musical verse
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metaphor: describes one thing as if it were something else; does not use "like" or "as"
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meter: the rhythmical pattern in a poem - created by the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables
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Narrative poetry: poetry that tells a story in verse.
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onomatopoeia: the use of words that imitate sounds
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personification: giving human qualities to animals or objects or things that are not human
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repetition: the use of any element of language - a sound,word,phrase,clause,or sentence-more than once
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rhyme: the repetition of sounds at the ends of words
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rhyming couplets: a pair of rhyming lines that usually have the same meter and length
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simile: comparison using 'like' or 'as' to compare two apparently unlike things
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sound devices: Techniques used to enhance a poem's mood and meaning
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stanza: a group of lines in a poem; a verse
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symbol: anything that stands for or represents something else
