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Poetry Terms

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Definition
show a poem which certain letters in each line form word.  
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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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Blank verse   show
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Close rhyme   show
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show Two lines of verse usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme that form a unit  
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Elegy   show
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Epic   show
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Foot   show
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Haiku   show
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Lamb   show
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Internal rhyme   show
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Limerick   show
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show A basic structural component of a poem  
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Lyric   show
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Meter   show
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Onomatopoeia   show
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Poem   show
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show a person who writes poems  
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Refrain   show
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show a literary device that repeats the same words or phrases a few times to make an idea clearer  
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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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show a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem, verse  
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show writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, tyically having a rhyme  
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