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Poetry Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| the appearance of words on a page | form |
| a group of words together on one line | line |
| a group of lines arranged together | stanza |
| beat created by the sounds of the words in a poem | rhythm |
| a pattern of stressed an unstressed syllables; each part of the pattern is called a foot | meter |
| unstressed, stressed | Iambic |
| stressed, unstressed | Trochaic |
| unstressed, unstressed, stressed | Anapestic |
| stressed, unstressed, unstressed | Dactylic |
| words that sound alike because they share the same ending vowel and consonant sounds | rhyme |
| pattern of rhyming words or sounds | rhyme scheme |
| a word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line | end rhyme |
| a word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line | internal rhyme |
| also known as imperfect; words share either the same vowel or consonant sound, but not both | near rhyme |
| a sound, word, phrase, or line repeated regularly in a poem | refrain |
| used to convey reeling and emotion and sets the mood for the work | tone |
| emotional or social association with a word | connotation |
| specific literal image, idea, concept, or object a phrase refers to | denotation |
| author of the poem | poet |
| "narrator" of the poem | speaker |
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tcourville
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