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9th grade poetry terms

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show The repetition of similar consonant sounds in a line of poetry  
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show When alliteration occurs at the beginning of words (jump for joy)  
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show When alliteration occurs within words (sunshine and shadow)  
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allusion   show
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show An extended comparison showing the similarities between two thing  
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assonance   show
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show A story (a narrative poem) told in verse and usually meant to be sung  
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show a ballad in which a known writer imitates a folk ballad  
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folk ballad   show
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blank verse   show
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show The emotion or association that a word or phrase may arouse  
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couplet   show
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show The literal or “dictionary” meaning of a word  
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show A writer’s choice of words (particularly for clarity, effectiveness, and precision  
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dramatic poetry   show
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figurative language   show
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show A term applied to a specific kind of figurative language, such as metaphor or simile  
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foot   show
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free verse   show
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iambic pentameter   show
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show Language that appeals to any sense or any combination of the senses  
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literary ballad   show
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show Poetry that expresses a speaker’s personal thoughts or feelings  
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metaphor   show
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implied metaphor   show
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meter   show
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show one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable  
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pentameter   show
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monologue   show
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narrative poetry   show
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show The use of a word whose sound in some degree imitates or suggests its meaning; the word is the sound; the sound is the word (cuckoo; snap; clang; rustle; tick tock; hiss)  
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parallelism   show
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show A summary or recapitulation of a piece of literature  
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personification   show
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Petrarchan Sonnet   show
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refrain   show
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show The return of a word, phrase, stanza form, or effect in any form of literature (as seen in alliteration, rhyme, refrain)  
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show 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   show
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show When the words at the ends of lines rhyme exactly  
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internal rhyme   show
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approximate (or near rhyme or partial rhyme or slant rhyme)   show
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show The pattern of rhymes in a poem  
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rhythm   show
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show A fourteen-line lyric poem consisting of three quatrains and a couplet with the following rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef gg  
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simile   show
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show A fourteen-line lyric poem usually written in rhymed iambic pentameter with a set rhyme scheme; Two types: Shakespearean sonnet (or English sonnet); Petrarchan sonnet (or Italian sonnet)  
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speaker   show
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show A group of lines forming a unit in poem  
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symbol   show
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theme   show
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tone   show
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show couplet, tercet (or triplet), quatrain, cinquain, sestet, heptastich, octave  
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