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Poetry
These terms are poetry characteristics and devices.
Term | Definition |
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assonance | resemblance of sounds, also called vowel rhyme |
consonance | repetition of consonant sounds |
enjambment | continuing a sentence without pausing |
ballads | a poem or song telling a story in short stanzas |
odes | a lyric poem for a specific subject |
lyric poetry | poetry that expresses personal thoughts, feelings, emotions |
alliteration | using words with the same sound at the beginning like " |
blank verse | verse without rhyme |
haiku | Japanese poem with seventeen syllables (in three lines of five, seven, and five) |
sonnets | poetry with fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes |