| Term | Definition |
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| poetry | a type of literature in which words are chosen and arranged to create a certain effect |
| rhythm | pattern or flow of sound created by the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry |
| free verse | poetry that does not contain a regular pattern |
| meter | a regular pattern of accented and unaccented syllables in a line of poetry |
| iambic pentameter | metrical line of five feet or units, each of which is made up of two syllables, the first unstressed and second stressed |
| rhyme | the occurrence of a similar or identical sound at the ends of two or more words, such as heat, suite, and complete. End rhyme occurs at the ends of lines and internal rhyme occurs within a line. |
| rhyme scheme | a pattern of end rhyme in a poem |
| stanza | a grouping of two or more lines in a pattern that is repeated throughout a poem |
| couplet | a rhymed pair of lines |
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