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| rhyme | a technique of poetry that is a scheme of how words are organized into patterns. Includes internal and external; ex. aa bb cc or ab ab ab
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| meter | the rhythm of the poem; the accented and unaccented syllables
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| alliteration | a repetition of the beginning consonant sound
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| assonance | a repetition of vowel sounds, ex. whats the story morning glory
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| consonance | a repetition of consonant sounds anywhere within words ex. bobo boxed baby's blue baboon
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| foot | a poetic structure that is one unit of a meter; 5 types: iambic, trochaic, spondaic, anapestic, dactylic
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| iambic | unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable (da-dum, da-dum)
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| trochaic | an accented syllable followed by an unaccented syllable (dum-da, dum-da)
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| spondaic | two accented syllables (dum-dum, dum-dum)
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| anapestic | two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable (da-da-dum, da-da-dum)
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| dactylic | an accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables (dum-da-da, dum-da-da)
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| verse | a line of poetry written in meter and named for the number of feet per line. there are eight common types of verse (monometer, dimiter, trimeter, tertameter, pentameter, hexameter, heptameter, octometer)
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| stanza | the sections or lines of a poem. There are six common stanzas (couplet, triplet, quatrain, sestet, septet, ocatane)
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| ballad | a poem that tells a story usually written in quatrains. The pattern is first and third lines are four accented syllables and the second and fourth lines are three accented syllables
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| blank verse | a poem that is unrhymed but has meter. Each line is usually 10 syllables and in iambic meter
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| cinquain | poems that are five lines in length. There can be both syllable and word cinquains
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| elegy | a poem about death or the sadness related to the death of an important person to the author
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| epic | a poem of lengthy proportions that is a story or tells the adventures of a hero; it must have a hero and villain
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| free verse | a poem without meter or rhyme scheme
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| Haiku | a form of Japanese poetry often about nature. It contains stanzas of three lines with 5, 7 5 syllables
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| limerick | a humorous poem of five lines. Lines 1, 2 and 5 rhyme and lines 3 and 4 rhyme. The syllables are 9, 9, 5, 5, 9.
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| lyric | a short poem with personal feeling; most often put to music
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| ode | long lyric with much imagery and full of poetic devices
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| sonnet | a 14-line poem that states the poet's personal feelings.
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| Shakespearean (English) sonnet | has three quatrains (four lines), a rhymed couplets with a rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg
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| Petrarchan (Italian) sonnet | has an octave (eight lines) and a sestet (six lines) with a rhyme scheme of abbaabba and cdecde, cdccdc, or cdedce
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