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Poetry terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Acrostic poem | a poem, word puzzle, or other composition in which certain letters in each line form a word or words. |
| Alliteration | Repetition of initial consonant sounds |
| Assonance | Repetition of similar vowel sounds |
| Ballad | A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas |
| Blank verse | verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter. |
| Close rhyme | Two rhyming words that are consecutive or very close together in a phrase or line |
| Couplet | Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme |
| elegy | a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead. |
| epic | A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds |
| Foot | A metrical unit composed of stressed and unstressed syllables. |
| Haiku | A Japanese form of poetry, consisting of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables |
| Iamb | unaccented and short syllables, followed by a long and accented syllable in a single line of a poem |
| internal rhyme | rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than at the end |
| Limerick | a kind of humorous verse of five lines, in which the first, second, and fifth lines rhyme with each other, and the third and fourth lines, which are shorter, form a rhymed couplet |
| Line | a unit of language into which a poem or play is divided |
| lyric | expressing the writer's emotions, usually briefly and in stanzas or recognized forms. |
| meter | A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry |
| Onomatopoeia | A word that imitates the sound it represents. |
| poem | a piece of writing that partakes of the nature of both speech and song that is nearly always rhythmical |
| poet | The author of the poem |
| refrain | A line or set of lines repeated several times over the course of a poem. |
| repetition | Repeated use of sounds, words, or ideas for effect and emphasis |
| rhyme | Repetition of sounds at the end of words |
| stanza | A group of lines in a poem |
| verse | writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme |
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