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Poetry terms

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Alliteration   the repetition of the same consonant sounds at the beginning of words  
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Assonance   the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds  
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Ballad   a narrative poem often intended to be sung  
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Caesura   a sudden break or pause in poetry  
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Consonance   the repetition of consonant sounds at the middle or end of words  
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Couplet   two consecutive rhyming lines of poetry  
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Didactic   a poem which is intended to teach a lesson  
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Dramatic poem   a poem which employs a dramatic form  
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Elegy   a poem of mourning, usually about someone who has died  
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End stopped line   a term applied to the verse to indicate a pause at the end of the line  
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Enjambment   the continuation of a line of poetry to the next line  
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Epic   a long narrative poem, written in heightened language, which recounts the deeds of a heroic character  
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Eye rhyme   a rhyme that appears to rhyme at first glance  
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Free verse   poetry that does not conform to a regular meter of rhyme scheme  
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Imagery   the use of language to evoke a picture or concrete sensation of a person, a thing, a place, or an experience  
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Internal rhyme   rhyme that occurs within a line  
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Lyric poem   a poem that does not tell a story but expresses the personal feelings or thoughts of a speaker  
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Metaphor   a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without using the words "like" or "as"  
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Ode   a formal, often ceremonial lyric poem that addresses and celebrates a person, place, thing, or idea  
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Onomatopoeia   the use of words whose sounds echo their meaning  
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Oxymoron   a figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms into a brief phrase  
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Parallel structure   the repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures  
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Personification   a figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes  
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Pun   a "play on words" based on multiple meaning of a single word or on words that sound alike but mean different things  
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Refrain   a word, phrase, line, or group of lines that is repeated, for effect, several times in a poem  
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Repetition   the repeating of a word or phrase  
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Rhythm   a rise and fall of the voice produced by the alteration of stressed and unstressed syllables  
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Simile   a figure of speech that makes an explicit comparison between two unlike things, using the words "like" or "as"  
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Sonnet   a "little song" that reflects upon a single attitude/opinion/emotion, with a clarification or turn of though in its concluding lines  
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Tone   the attitude a writer takes toward the subject of a work, and is revealed through diction and figurative language  
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