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Poetry Words
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English
8th Grade
04/28/2010

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Stanza
Definition
arrangement of a certain # of lines, usually 4 or more, sometimes having a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme, forming a division of a poem
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Meter
Definition
arrangement of words in regualrly measured, patterned or rhythmic lines or verses
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Couplet
Definition
Pair of succesive lines of verse, esp. pair that rhyme and are of the same length
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Rhythm
Definition
metrical or rhythmical form; meter
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Interal Rhyme
Definition
rhyme created by 2 or more words in the same line or verse
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Approximate Rhyme (EX)
Definition
term used for words in a verse pattern that have sound correspondence, but are not perfect rhymes.
Send, When.
Day, Made.
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Exact Rhyme (EX)
Definition
Later part of the word ot phrase which is identical sounding to another
Leave, Believe.
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Free Verse Poem
Definition
verse composed of variable, usually unrhymed lines having no fixed metrical pattern
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Elegy
Definition
poem composed in elegiac couplets in a poem or song for a dead person
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Narrative
Definition
story; telling of a story
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Sonnet
Definition
14 line verse from usually having one of serveral conventional rhyme schemes
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Ballad
Definition
narrative poem of folk origin, intended to be sung, consisting of simple stanzas and usually having a refrain. Popular song of romatic or sentimental nature
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Lyric
Definition
of or relating to a category of peotry which expresses subjective thoughts and feelings in a songlike style or form
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Ode
Definition
lyric poem of some length, usually of serious or meditative nature and having an elevated style and formal stanzaic structure. Ode in title
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Epic
Definition
extended narrative poem in elevated or dignified language, celebrating beats of a legendary or tranditional hero
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Onomatopoeia (EX)
Definition
sound an object makes.
Woof.
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Alliteration (EX)
Definition
repitition of consonant sounds in serveral words that are close together.
On scrolls of slivery snowy sentences.
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Assonance (EX)
Definition
repitition of vowel sounds.
That dolphin torn, that gong tormented sea.
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Iambic Pentameter
Definition
line of 10 syllables long accented on every beat
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Quatrain
Definition
A stanza or poem of 4 lines
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