| Term | Definition |
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| Alliteration | A repetition of a certain consonant syllable or certain consonant syllables in a poem |
| Allusion | A reference in one story to another story (usually a historical or biblical one) that deepens the meaning |
| Assonance | A repetition of a vowel sound in a poem |
| Blank Verse | Poetry that doesn't rhyme |
| Ceasura | A pause or break in a line of poetry |
| Consonance | An off-rhyme or slant-rhyme ex: plant and land |
| Couplet | A pair of lines that go together and may rhyme or be the same length |
| Figurative Language | Writing that is not its literal meaning, but achieves a special meaning instead |
| Haiku | A three line poem with 5 syllables in the first line, 7 syllables in the second line, and 5 syllables in the last line |
| Hyperbole | An exaggeration for emphasis or rhetorical effect |
| Imagery | Especially descriptive words that put pictures in the head of the reader |
| Lyric | The words of a song |
| Metaphor | A figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity |
| Motif | A recurring idea, pattern, theme, or subject in an artistic work |
| Narrative Poem | A poem that tells a story |
| Prose Poem | A poem that doesn't rhyme but still has a rhythm |
| Personification | Giving human traits to a non-human object or creature |
| Rhyme | When words end in the same sound and sound good together |
| Simile | A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with 'like' or 'as') |
| Symbol | Something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible |
| Villanelle | A poem that has 19 lines and a rhyme scheme of abababab etc. There are 2 refrains. The 1st refrain is repeated in lines 1, 6, 12, and 18. Refrain 2 is repeated in lines 3, 9, 15, and 19. |
| Sonnet | A poem with 14 lines. Rhyme scheme varies with type— Shakespearian and Petrarchan |
| Thesis | A sentence containing the author's name and the name of the story. It states a theme that you can support from the text. |
| Tone | How the story is written- is it bright and cheerful or sad and dark? |
| Double Entendre | Having 2 meanings. |
| Poem | A short few paragraphs, possibly rhyming, that could be about anything at all. It must have a theme. |
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