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poetry Poetry`s "tools" include forms or patterns, rhythm, rhyme, repetition. Poetry sings.
Rhythm Pattern of stressed or unstressed syllables in spoken or written language.
Repetition use of any element of language more than once.
Stanza group of lines of poetry that are usually similar in length and pattern.
Metaphor describes something as if it were something else.
Personification gives human qualities to something that is for human.
Simile use like or as to compare two seemingly unlike things.
Symbol anything that represents something else.
Alliteration repetition of consonant sounds in the beginning of words.
Repetition use of any element of language more than once.
Assonance repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants in stressed syllables.
Consonance repetition of similar consonant sounds at the ends of accented syllables.
Onomatopoeia is the use of words that imitate sounds.
rhyme is the repetition of sounds at the end of words.
Meter is the rhythmical pattern in a poem.
Narrative Poetry is any account of connected events, presented to a reader or listener in a sequence of written or spoken words.
Haiku a japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, traditionally evoking images of the natural world.
Free Verse poetry that does not rhyme or have regular meter.
Lyric Poetry lyric poems typically express personal or emotional feelings and are traditionally the home of the present tense.
Ballads a poem or song narrating or story in short stanzas.
Concrete Poems poetry that visually conveys the poet`s meaning through the graphic arrangement of letters, words, or symbols on the page.
Limericks a humorous, frequently, bawdy, verse of three long and two short lines rhyming aabba.
Rhyming Couplets pair of lines of meter in poetry.
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