poetry terms
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keeperofpen2 on January 11, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 alliteration | the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words |
| cadence | the rhythmic rise and fall of language when it is spoken or read aloud |
| catalog | the listing of images, details, people, or events in a literary work |
| end rhyme | the rhyming of words at the ends of lines |
| end-stopped line | a line of poetry that contains a complete thought, thus requiring a semicolon or period at the end |
| foot | the basic unit in the measurement of a line of metrical poetry |
| free verse | poetry that has no fixed pattern of meter, rhyme, line length, or stanza arrangement |
| haiku | a traditional Japanese form of poetry that has three lines and seventeen syllables |
| internal rhyme | rhyme that occurs within a single line of poetry |
| lyric | a poem that expresses a speaker's personal thoughts and feelings |
| meter | a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that gives a line of poetry a more or less predictable rhythm |
| narrative poetry | verse that tells a story |
| poetic license | the freedom given to poets to ignore standard rules of grammar or proper diction in order to create a desired artistic effect |
| poetry | a form of literary expression that differs from prose in emphasizing the line rather than the sentence, as the unit of composition |
| rhyme | the repetition of the same stressed vowel sounds and any succeeding sounds in two or more words |
| rhyme scheme | the pattern that end rhymes form in a stanza or poem |
| rhythm | the pattern of beats created by the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables |
| run-on line | the continuation of a sentence from one line of a poem to another |
| slant rhyme | occurs when words include sounds that are similar but not identical |
| speaker | the voice speaking in a poem, similar to a narrator in a work of prose |
| stanza | a group of lines forming a unit in a poem or song |
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