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Poetry Terms

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Definition
acrostic   show
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Alliteration   show
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show The repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in non rhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible  
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Ballad   show
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show Bars without rhyme especially that which uses iambic pentameter  
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Close rhyme   show
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Couplet   show
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Elegy   show
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show A long poem typically one derives from ancient oral tradition narrating the deeds and Adventures of heroic or legendary figures for the history of a Nation  
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Foot   show
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show A Japanese poem of Seventeen syllables in three lines of five seven and five traditionally evoking images of the natural world  
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show A metrical foot consisting of one short or unstressed syllable followed by one long or stressed syllable  
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Internal rhyme   show
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show A humorous frequently bawdy verse of 3 long and two short lines rhyming aabba  
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show A basic structural component of a poem  
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show Expressing the writers and motions usually briefly and in stanzas or recognized forms  
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Meter   show
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Onomatopoeia   show
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Poem   show
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Poet   show
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show a phrase or verse recurring at intervals in a song or poem, especially at the end of each stanza, chorus  
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Repetition   show
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show correspondence of sound between words o the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry  
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Stanza   show
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show writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, tyically having a rhyme  
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