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| Poetry | Poetry refers 2 poems, with or without rhyme schemes. Prose is writing a story, either fiction or nonfiction.
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| Rhyme | It is a repetition of similar sounds in two or more words and is most often used in poetry and songs. The word "rhyme" may also refer to a short poem, such as a rhyming couplet or other brief rhyming poem such as nursery rhymes.
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| Rhyme scheme | is the pattern of rhyming lines in a poem or song. It is usually referred to by using letters to indicate which lines rhyme. In other words, it is the pattern of end rhymes or lines. A rhyme scheme gives the scheme of the rhyme.
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| Approximate rhyme | Words that are similar in sound but not exactly. For example - send and when, air and there, sun and plum.
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| Exact rhyme | The vowel sound in both words must be identical. — e.g. "sky" and high"
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| End Rhyme | a rhyme in the final syllable(s) of a verse (the most common kind)
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| Internal rhyme | When a word at the end of the line rhymes with a word in the interior of the line; it is a rhyme in which occurs within a single line of verse.
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| Rhythm and meter | a common form of rhyme is meter, a regular pattern of stresses and unstressed syllables in each line. (p. 530-531)
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| Iamb | is an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable (da DAH). An iamb is one of kind of poetic foot.
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| Foot | usually consists of one stressed syllable and one or more unstressed syllables.
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| Scanning | is a way of taking a poem apart to see how a poet has created its music
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| Free verse | does not follow the regular patterns of rhyme and meter. This kind of poetry sometimes sounds similar to prose or to everyday language.
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| Onomatopoeia | It is a way we say the canon “booms” or bacon “sizzles.” The words can echo a natural sound (hiss, slap, rumble, snarl, moan) or a mechanical sound.
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| Alliteration | is the repetition of the same consonant sound in several words.
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| Assonance | the repetition of a vowel sound.
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| Verse and stanza | an arrangement of a certain number of lines, usually four or more, sometimes having a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme, forming a division of a poem.
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| Lyric Poetry | highly musical verse that expresses the speaker's feelings and observations. In ancient times poems were sung with accompaniment from a lyre.
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| Narrative poetry | is poetry that has a plot.
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| Stressed and unstressed symbols | Trochee, Anapest, Dactyl, Spondee
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| Foreshadowing | hints or clues that suggest that suggest what is to come in the story.
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| The different types of sonnets: | Octet (octave)- it has 8 lines that pose a problem about something (i.e. love).
Sestet- has 6 lines and offers a response to the octet.
Quatrains- It has three four-line units;
Couplet- a two-line units that follows a quatrain
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