LIT: Poetry Terms
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Poetry | the patterned form of verbal or written expression of ideas in concentrated, imaginative, and rhythmical terms |
| meter | the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables established in a line of poetry |
| foot | a unit of meter |
| iambic foot | a 2 syllable foot with the stress on the second syllable |
| blank verse | consists of lines of iambic pentameter without end rhyme |
| free verse | consists of lines that do not have a regular meter and do not contain rhyme |
| rhyme | the similarity or likeness of sound existing between 2 words |
| end rhyme | consists of the similarity at the end of 3 or more lines of a verse |
| interrnal rhyme | consists of the similarity occuring between 2 or more wordsin the same line of verse |
| rhyme scheme | the pattern or sequence in which the rhyme occurs |
| alliteration | the repetition of an initial letter or sound in 2 or more words in a line of verse |
| onomatopoeia | the use of a word to represent or imitate natural sounds |
| assonance | the similarity or repitition of a vowel sound in 2 or more words |
| consonance | the repetition of consonant sounds within a line of verse |
| refrain | the repition of one or more phrases or lines at intervals in a poem, usually at the end of a stanza |
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