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