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Elements of Poetry
poems
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English
8th Grade
01/04/2010

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Alliteration
Definition
"Alliteration is the repition of constant sounds at the beginnnings of words."
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Assonance
Definition
"Assonace is the reppition of vowel sounds within nonrhyiming words."
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Rhyme
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"Rhyme is the occurance of a similar or indentical sound at the ends of two or more words."
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End Rhyme
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"End rhyme occurs at the end of lines"
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Internal Rhyme
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"Links two or more rhyming words within the same line."
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Imagery
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"Imargey consists of descriptive words and pharses that recreate expierment for the reader."
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Theme
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"Theme is the main idea in a work of literatre or poem."
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Reppition
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'Reppition is a techcinque in which a sound word or phrase or line is repperted."
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rhythm
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"Rhythm refers to the pattern or flow of sounds created by the arrangement of stressted and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry."
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Simile
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"Is a poem that has a compairison."
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Symbol
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"A symbol is a person , a place , an activity or an object that stands for something."
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Metaphor
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"A metaphor is a figure of speech that makes a compairison between two things that are basically unlike but have something in common."
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Extened Metahor
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"Figure of spech that compares two essentially unlike things at some length and in several ways."
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Lyric Poem
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" A short poem in which a singule speaker expresses personal thoughts and felling."
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Sonnet
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" A sonet is a lyric poem of 4 lines commly written in imabic pentameter."
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imabic Pentameter
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" Metrical line of five feet or units each of which is made up of two symbllaes."
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blank Verse
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"Blank verse is unrhymed poetry written in a imabic pentameter.  Each line pairs an unstressed symbolle followed by a stressed symbol."
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Personifaction
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" is a figure of spech in which human qualites are compared to a animal or idea."
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Epic
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" Is along poem showing hero whose activites relfedt the idea and values of a nation or race."
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