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9th Grade
04/15/2010

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Lyric poem
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Is a highly musical verse that express the observations feelings of a single speaker
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Narrative poem
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is a speaker or character who tells a story
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Free verse
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is poetry not written in a regular rhythmical pattern, meter
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Alliteration
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is the repetition of initial consonant sounds.
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Onomatopoeia
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is the use of words that imitate sounds.
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Assonance
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is the repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants in two or more stressed syllables
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Consonance
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linguistics a close similarity between consonants or groups of consonants, especially at the ends of words, e.g between strong and ring
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meter
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a poem is its rhythmical pattern, this pattern is determined by the number and types of stresses, or beats in each line
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Tone
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a literary work is the writer's attitude toward his or her audience subject
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Iambic pentameter
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it involves marking the stressed and unstressed syllables
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Repetition
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is the use of any element of language
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Rhyme scheme
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is a regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem
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Simile
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is a figured of speech in which like or as is used to make a comparison between two basically unlike ideas.
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Metaphor
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is a figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else
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Personification
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is a type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics
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Diction
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is a word choice, including the vocabulary used, the appropriateness of the words, and the vividness of language
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connotation
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a word is the set of ideas associated with it in addition to its explicit meaning
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imagery
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is the descriptive or figurative language used in literature to create word pictures for the reader (sight, sound, taste, touch, smell)
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Haiku
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is a three-line verse form. the first and third lines of a haiku each five syllables, second line has seven syllables
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Sonnet
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is a fourteen-line poem usually written in rhymed iambic pentameter
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couplet
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is a pair rhyming lines, usually of the same length and meter of
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quatrain
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is a stanza or poem made up of four lines, usually with definite rhythm and rhyme scheme
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Speaker
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is the imaginary voice assumed by the writer of a poem, in many poems, the speaker is not identified name
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Stanza
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is a formal division of lines in a poem, considered as a unit, often stanzas in apoem are separated by spaces.
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Irony
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is the general term for literary techniques that portray differences between appearance and reality, or expectation and result
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exact rhymes
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is when the later part of the word or phrase is identical sounding to another
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approximate/slat rhymes
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a form of rhyme in which words contain similar sounds but do not rhyme perfectly.
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End rhymes
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in poetry a rhyme that occurs in the last syllables of verses
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internal rhyme
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rhyme between a word within a line and another word either at the end of the same line or within another line
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