| Term | Definition |
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| Alliteration | The repetition of consonant sounds in words that are close together |
| Assonance | The repetition of vowel sounds in words that are close together is called __________ |
| Connotation | A meaning, association, or emotion suggested by a word, in addition to its dictionary definition |
| Couplet | a pair of successive lines of verse, esp. a pair that rhyme and are of the same length. |
| Dialect | A way of speaking characteristic of a certain geographical area or a certain group of people |
| Extended Metaphor | It is a metaphor that is extended, or developed, over several lines of lines or even throughout an entire work |
| Figurative Language | speech or writing that departs from literal meaning in order to achieve a special effect or meaning, speech or writing employing figures of speech |
| Hyperbole | obvious and intentional exaggeration. |
| Iambic pentameter | a common meter in poetry consisting of an unrhymed line with five feet or accents, each foot containing an unaccented syllable and an accented syllable |
| Imagery | Language that appeals to the senses |
| Irony | A contrast between expectation and reality |
| Metaphor | A comparison between two unlike things in which one thing becomes another thing |
| Meter | A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry |
| Onomatopoeia | The use of words whose sounds imitate or suggest their meaning |
| Personification | A figure of speech in which an object or animal is spoken of as if it had human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes |
| Pun | A play on the multiple meanings of a word or on two words that sound alike but have different meanings |
| Refrain | A repeated sound, word, phrase, line, or group |
| Rhyme | The repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem |
| Rhyme Scheme | The pattern of the end of rhymes in a poem is called a __________ |
| Rhythm | A musical quality produced by the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables or by the repetition or certain other sound patterns |
| Simile | A comparison between two unlike things using words such as like, as, than, or resembles |
| Stanza | A group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit |
| Stereotype | A fixed idea about the member of a particular group of people that does not allow for any individuality |
| Symbol | A person, place, thing, or event that has meaning in itself and stands for something beyond itself as well |
| Tone | The attitude a writer takes toward his or her subject, characters, and audience |
| Internal Rhyme | They are rhymes within lines |
| Quatrain | a stanza or poem of four lines, usually with alternate rhymes. |
| Narrative | A poem that tells a story |
| Lyric | A poem that expresses the feelings or thoughts of a speaker rather than telling |
| Epic | noting or pertaining to a long poetic composition, usually centered upon a hero, in which a series of great achievements or events is narrated in elevated style |
| Ballard | A song or poem that tells a story |
| Ode | a lyric poem typically of elaborate or irregular metrical form and expressive of exalted or enthusiastic emotion. |
| Elegy | a mournful, melancholy, or plaintive poem, esp. a funeral song or a lament for the dead. |
| Sonnet | A poem, properly expressive of a single, complete thought, idea, or sentiment, of 14 lines, usually in iambic pentameter, with rhymes arranged according to one of certain definite schemes, being in the strict or Italian form divided into a major group of 8 lines (the octave) followed by a minor group of 6 lines (the sestet), and in a common English form into 3 quatrains followed by a couplet. |
| Limerick | a kind of humorous verse of five lines, in which the first, second, and fifth lines rhyme with each other, and the third and fourth lines, which are shorter, form a rhymed couplet. |
| Free Verse | Poetry without a regular meter or rhyme scheme |
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