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Poetry Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| a stylistic device in which a number of words, having the same first consonant sound, occur close together in a series | Alliteration |
| when two or more words close to one another repeat the same vowel sound but start with different consonant sounds | Assonance |
| repetitive sounds produced by consonants within a sentence or phrase | Consonance |
| a word, which imitates the natural sounds of a thing | Onomatopoeia |
| a thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract | Symbol |
| a humorous, frequently bawdy, verse of three long and two short lines rhyming aabba | Limerick |
| attitude of a writer toward a subject | Tone |
| main idea or an underlying meaning of a literary work | Theme |
| has 14 fourteen lines and is written in iambic pentameter. Each line has 10 syllables | Sonnet |
| the meaning or effect is conveyed partly or wholly by visual means, using patterns of words or letters | Concrete poetry |