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Allegory:
A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning.
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Alliteration:
The repetition of consonant sounds, especially at the beginning of words.
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Ballad:
A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas, characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.
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Blank verse:
A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter.
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Caesura:
A strong pause within a line of verse.
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Dramatic monologue:
A type of poem in which a speaker addresses a silent listener.
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Elegy:
A lyric poem that laments the dead.
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Enjambment:
A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.
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Epic:
A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.
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Epigram:
A brief witty poem, often satirical.
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Free verse:
Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or thyme.
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Hyperbole:
A figure of speech involving exaggeration.
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Lyric poem:
A type of poem characterized by brevity, compression, and the expression of feeling.
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Meter:
The measured pattern of rhythmic accents in poems.
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Narrative poem:
A poem that tells a story.
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Octave:
An eight-line limit, which may constitute a stanza or a section of a poem, as in the octave of a sonnet.
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Onomatopoeia:
The use of words to imitate the sounds they describe.
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Open form:
A type of structure or form in poetry characterized by freedom from regularity andconsistency in such elements as rhyme, line length, metrical pattern, and overall poetic structure.
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Parody:
A humorous, mocking imitation of a literary work, sometimes sarcastic, but often playful and even respectful in its playful imitation.
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Rhyme:
The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.
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Simile:
A figure of speech involving a comparison between unlike things using like, as, or as though.
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Sonnet:
A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.
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Villanelle:
A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.
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