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poetry

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Figurative Language   Use of figures of speech to create a mental picture  
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Simile   A comparison using “like” and “as”  
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Metaphor   A comparison without using “like” or “as”  
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Personification   Giving things that aren’t humans, human characteristics  
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Imagery   Use of descriptive words to make pictures in your mind  
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Theme   The subject of the poem  
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Sound Effects   Words that show noise in writing  
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Rhythm   Repetition of sound in the writing that makes it flow  
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Meter   Repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables/words in a writing  
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Iamb   Rhythm of da Da da DA da DA da DA in a line  
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Repetition   repeating sounds, words, or lines to better create a poem  
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Alliteration   Repeating the same first letter of a word in a few words  
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Onomatopoeia   Words creating noise  
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Structured Verse   Certain rules used to write a piece of poetry  
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Free Verse   No structure to it and can be whatever you want  
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Haiku   Makes picture in the readers mind only using 17 syllables and three lines  
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Limerick   Five  
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Concrete Poem   Poem that is the shape of what the poem describes  
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Sonnet   Love poem that rhymes and is 14 lines  
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assonance   repetition of vowel sounds within words  
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consonance   repetition of consonant sounds within words  
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trochee   stress on first syllable unstressed on 2nd  
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spondee   both syllables stressed  
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pyrrhic   both syllables unstressed  
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catalexis   dropping final stress from trochee or dactyl  
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