- Acrostic: poem that uses one word and makes words off of it
- Alliteration: repetion of letters at the beginning of a word
- Auditory Image: mental imgage similar to auditory perception
- Ballad: a story song and narrative poem
- Blank Verse: poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
- Cinquian: 5 line poem
- Connotation: is the implied meaning of the word
- Couplet: a two line stanza
- Denotations: is the literal meaining of the word
- English Sonnet: 3 four lined stanzas followed by a couplet with rymes
- Figurative Language: language the contains images
- Free Verse: poetry not written in regular rhymical pattern or meter
- Haiku: a Japense poem, 3 lines, 5,7,5, formator syllables
- Iamic Pentameter: poem with line verse having 5 metrical meter which consists of metrical foot of two syllables
- Italian Sonnet: A form of sonnet divided into eight line and six line parts. Also called a Petrarchan sonnet.
- Limerick: humerous, nonsense verse of a triplet and couplet
- Literal Language: speech that use word or definiation meaning.
- Lyric Poem: a poem that has feeling
- Narritive Poem: a story written in a verse
- Onamatopia: words that sound like the object they name or the sound the object makes
- Personification: giving human qualities to animals or objects
- Poetry: one of the three major types of literature
- Prose: the ordinary form of written language
- Rhyme Scheme: pattern of rhyme iused in a stanza, verse or couplet
- Sensory Language: Word that lets you feel, hear, taste, smell or see
- Simile: the comparison of 2 things using like or as
- Sonnet: a poem thhas 14 lines
- Stanza: a formal division of lines in a poem written as an unit
- Style: the way the pet uses words in a certian way
- Theme: general idea or insight about life that a writer wishes to express
- Tone: attitude a writer takes toward a subject or character
- Verse: a line of traditional poetry written as a meter
- Visual Images: something you see using words
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