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| A 14 line poem written in iambic pentameter. |
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| A 19 line poem written in iambic pentameter and composed of five tercets and one ending quatrain. |
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| The repetition of identical initial consonant sounds within words that are close in proximity. |
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| A reference to an earlier literary work or to an historical event. |
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| A songlike narrative poem originating from the oral tradition. |
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| Unryhmed iambic pentameter. |
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| The implied meaning of a word, as opposed to its denotative or literal meaning. |
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| The literal meaning of a word. |
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| A poem that mourns a death. |
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| To end a line with a punctuation mark, thus calling attention to the line as a structure within the poem. |
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| To carry a thought from one line to the next without the interruption of punctuation, thus making the line more prose like than if the lines were end-stopped. |
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| Rhyme coming at the end of lines. |
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| A repeated unit of sound in a poem; the basic elemen t of regular rhythm. |
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| A figure of speech that exaggerates what is true. |
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| A description of a sensory impression. |
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| Occurs when one or both of the rhyming words comes within the line. |
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| Meter measures the regular patterns of rhythm, called metrical feet, which are created by the degree to which we accent each syllable. |
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| A stanza containing 8 lines. |
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| The technique of using words that sound like their meaning, for instance woof, meow, pow. |
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| A figure of speech that makes an apprently contradictory statement that is nonetheless true. |
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| A figure of speech that gives the qualities of a human to that which is non-human. |
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| A stanza containing 4 lines. |
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| A repeated phrase or line. |
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| A stanza composed of 6 lines. |
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| A group of lines within a poem. |
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| A stanza composed of 3 lines. |
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| Poetry without regular patterns of rhyme and meter. |
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| A repetition of a word or words at the beginning of successive lines, clauses, or sentences. |
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| Rhymes that are not exact, only approximate (AKA off rhyme.) |
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