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poetry terms

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simile   use “like” or “as” to compare two apparently unlike things  
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metaphor   describe one thing as if it was something else  
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personification   gives human qualities to something that is not human  
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symbol   anything that represents something else  
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alliteration   the repetition of constant sounds in the beginning of words  
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repetition   the use of any element of language-a sound, word, phrase, clause, or sentence-more than once  
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assonance   the repetition of vowel sounds fallowed by different consonants in stressed syllables  
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consonance   the repetition of similar consonant sounds at the ends of accented syllables  
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onomatopoeia   the use of words that imitate sounds  
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rhyme   the repetition of sounds at the ends of words  
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meter   the rhythmical pattern in a poem  
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narrative poetry   tells the story in a verse, often have elements similar in short stories, such as characters and plot  
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haiku   a three-lined japanese verse form, the first and third lines have 5 syllables while the second has 7  
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free verse   poetry that is defined by its lack of script structure, it has no regular meter, rhyme, fixed line length, or specific stanza pattern  
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lyric poetry   poetry that expresses the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker, often in a highly musical verse  
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ballads   are song-like poems that tell a story, mostly about adventure and love.  
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concrete poetry   poems that are shaped to look like their subjects  
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limericks   a humorous, rhyming, five-line poem with a specific rhythm pattern and rhyme scheme  
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rhyming couplets   pairs of rhyming lines, usually of the same meter and length  
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rhythm   the pattern, or beat, of the poem  
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