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poetic terms
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| alliteration | the repetition of of initial consonant sounds in words |
| assonance | The repetition of vowel sounds without the repetition of consonants |
| ballad | a poem in a verse that tells a story |
| consonance | The repetition of consonant sounds |
| blank verse | an unrhymed form of poetry that normally consists of ten syllables in which every other syllable, beginning with the second, is stressed |
| end rhyme | the rhyming of words that appear at the end of two or more lines of poetry |
| foot | The smallest repeated pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poetic line |
| couplet | two lines of verse the same length that usually rhyme |
| free verse | poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme |
| haiku | a form of Japanese poetry that has three lines; the first line has five syllables, the second line has five syllables, and the third has five syllables. |
| internal rhyme | when the rhyming words occur in the same line of poetry |
| meter | the pattern of repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetrey |
| onomatopoeia | the use of a word whose sound suggest its meaning |
| refrain | the repetition of a line or phrase of a poem at regular intervals, especially at the end of each stanza. |
| repeition | the repeating of a word or phrase within a poem or a prose piece to create a sense of rythem |
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