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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