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language that appeals to our senses
Imagery
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poetry that expresses a speaker's emotions or thoughts and does not tell a story
lyric poem
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poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme
free verse
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Japenese poetic form; five unrhymed lines and 31 syallables
Tanka
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14 line lyric poem, usually written in iambic perimeter
Sonnet
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ballad or song-like poem that tells a story
Ballad
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lines or words that are repeated at regular intervals
Refrain
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composed by unknown singers and passed on orally for generations before being written down
folk
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imitate folk ballads
literary
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a long traditional lyric poem that considers a serious subject and that is written in dignified style
ode
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figure of speech that makes a comparison between two seemingly unlike things by using a connective word such as the words as, like, than, or resembles.
simile
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images imply a comparison
implied metaphor
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a generally regular pattern of stresed and unstressed syallables
meter
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analyzing the metrical pattern of a poem
scanning
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usually consists of one stressed syallable and one or more unstressed syallables
feet
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an unstressed syallable followed by a stressed syallable
lamb
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a stressed syallable followed by an unstressed syallable
trochee
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two unstressed syallable followed by one stressed syallable
anapest
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one stressed syallable followed by two unstressed syallables
dactyl
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two stressed syallables
spondee
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repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem
rhyme
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rhyme that occurs at the end of lines
End rhyme
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rhymes that occur withing lines
Internal rhyme
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differing consonant sounds are followed by identical stressed vowel sounds, and the following sounds, if any, are identical
Exact Rhyme
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words that sound similar but do not rhyme exactly
Approximate rhyme
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repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consanant sounds in words that are close together
Assonance
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use of word whose sounds imitates or suggests it's meaning
Onomatopoeia
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reference to a statement, a person, a place, an event, or a thing that is known from literature, history,religion,myth, politics, sports, science, or the arts
Allusion
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the voice that is talking to us in a poem
Speaker
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the attitude a writer takes toward a subject, a character, or the reader
Tone
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looks like an ordinary prose passage, yet it uses elements of poetry (especially powerful imagery and figurative language)
Prose Poem
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the central idea or insight about human life revealed by a work of literature
Theme
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expression peculiar to a particular language that means something different from the literal meaning of the words
Idioms
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