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Academic Vocab 6
Academic Vocab 6 - Poetry
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Poetic form | a distinctive poetic structure with distinguishable characteristics based on meter, lines, stanzas, and rhyme schemes such as a sonnet, blank verse, ballad, haiku, epic, lyric, etc. |
Poetry | literary works focused on the expression of feelings and ideas through a distinctive style that is often rhymical and may have elements such as meter, rhyme, and stanzas. |
Sound device | a device used by authors to create meaning through sound and help readers develop visual images |
Alliteration | the repetition of the same sounds at the beginning of two or more adjacent words or stressed syllables |
Internal rhyme | rhyme with in the same line of verse |
Onomatopoeia | the use of words that sound like what they mean; a poetic device to produce this effect |
Assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds in words close together within a phrase or sentence; the vowel sound can occur in the beginning, middle, or end of a word |
Consonance | the repetition of consonant sounds in words close together within a phrase or sentence; the consonant sound can occur in the beginning, middle, or end of a word. |