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poetry terms

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Alliteration- the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds through a sequence of words-
Blank Verse- the metrical verse form most like everyday human speech
Couplet- two consecutive lines of verse linked by rhyme and meter
Consonance- the repetition of certain sounds consonant sounds in close proximity
Foot – the basic unit of poetic meter, consisting of any various fixed patterns of one to three stressed and unstressed syllables
Free Verse- poetry characterized by varying line lengths
Genre- a type or category of works sharing particular formal or textual features and conventions
Haiku- a poetic form, Japanese in origin, that in English consists of seventeen syllables arranged in three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables, respectively
Iambic- referring to a metrical form in which each foot consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one
Imagery- broadly defined, any sensory detail or evocation in a work
Lines- in a poem, a discrete organization of words
Meter- the more or less regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry
Pentameter- a line of poetry with five feet
Sonnet- a fixed verse form consisting of fourteen lines usually in iambic pentameter
Stanza- a section of a poem, marked by extra line spacing before and after that often has a single pattern of meter and/or rhyme
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