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Poetry
STUDY
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| haiku | an epigrammatic Japanese verse form of three short lines |
| couplet | a stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse; usually rhymed |
| free verse | unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern |
| limerick | a humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabba |
| ballad | a narrative poem of popular origin |
| rhythm | the arrangement of spoken words alternating stressed and unstressed elements |
| rhyme | correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds) |
| repetition | the repeated use of the same word or word pattern as a rhetorical device |
| figurative | (used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech |
| literal | limited to the explicit meaning of a word or text |