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English Poetry Terms

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Alliteration   The repetition of similar sounds, usually consonants or consonant clusters, in a group of words  
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Allusion   A reference in one work of literature to a person, place, or event in another work of literature or in history, art, or music  
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Assonance   The repetition of similar vowel sounds, usually close together, in a group of words  
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Ballad   A story told in verse and usually meant to be sung  
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Connotation   The emotion or association that a word or phrase may arouse  
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Denotation   The literal or "dictionary" meaning of a word  
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Dramatic Poetry   Poetry in which one or more characters speak  
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Free Verse   Poetry that has no fixed meter or pattern and that depends on natural speech  
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Lyric Poetry   Poetry that expresses a speaker's personal thoughts or feelings  
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Metaphor   A comparison between two unlike unlike things with intent of giving added meaning to one of them  
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Narrative Poetry   Poetry that tells a story  
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Onomatopoeia   The use of a word whose sound in some degree imitates or suggests its meaning  
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Parallelism   The use of phrases, clauses, or sentences that are similar or complementary in structure or in meaning  
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Personification   A figure of speech in which an animal, an object, a natural force, or an idea is given personality, or described as if it were human  
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Repetition   The return of a word, phrase, stanza, form, or effect in any form of literature  
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Rhyme   The repetition of sound in two or more words or phrases that usually appear close to each other in a poem  
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End Rhyme   If the rhyme occurs at the ends of lines  
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Internal Rhyme   If the rhyme occurs within the line  
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Rhyme Scheme   The pattern of rhyme's in a poem  
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Simile   A comparison made between two dissimilar things through the use of a specific word of comparison such as like, as than, or resembles  
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Sonnet   A fourteen-line lyric poem, usually written in rhymed iambic pentameter  
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