| Term | Definition |
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| Rhythm | The beat of a poem madeup of strong and weak syllables |
| Meter | a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables |
| Rhyme | sounds that are alike at the end of words |
| Rhyme Scheme | a pattern of end rhymes in a poem |
| End Rhyme | rhyming words are at the end of the line |
| Couplet | 2 lines that rhyme |
| Internal Rhyme | inside sounds of a line that are alike |
| Approximate Rhyme | a partial or imperfect rhyme using similar but not exact sounds |
| Alliteration | Consonant sounds repeated as the beginning of words |
| Assonance | vowel sounds that are repeated |
| Lines | a line in a stanza |
| Stanza | a group of lines in a poem |
| Repition | the repeating of sounds, words, phrases of lines in a poem |
| Extended Metaphor | a comparison that lasts over an entire poem or many lines |
| Onomatopoeia | words that describe sound |
| Hyperbole | obvious and intentional exaggeration |
| Elegy | a poem written about someone who has died |
| Free Verse | an irregular form of poetry in which the content free from fixed meter or rhyme |
| Ballad | a short narrative poem that is song like |
| Epic | a long narrative poem celebrating the adventures and achievements of a hero |
| Narrative | a poem about a story |
| Lyric | a poem written for strong feeling or emotion |
| Ode | a poem praising and glorifying a person, place, or thing |
| Sonnet | a poem consisting of 14 lines. |
| Idiom | an expression where the literal meaning of the words is not the meaning of the expression |
| Personification | when something is given human characteristics |
| Haiku | an unrhymed Japanese verse consisting of three unrhymed lines(5,7,5) |
| Limerick | a rhymed humorous or nonsense poem of 5 lines(shows or expresses emotion) |
| Cinquain | a short, usually unrhymed poem consisting of 22 syllables(2,4,6,8,2) |
| Tone | writer's attitude toward his readers and his subject |
| Metaphor | to compare two things using the word is |
| Simile | to compare two things using the words "like" or "as" |
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