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lyric
highly musical verse that expresses the observations and feelings of a single speaker
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narrative
poem that tells a story
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dramatic
poetry that uses techniques of drama
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sonnet
fourteen-line lyric peom, usually written in rhymed iambic pentameter
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epic
long narrative or narrative poem about the deeds of gods or heros
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haiku
three-line verse form. first and third lines contain five syllables and the second line contains seven
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tanka
consists of five unrhymed lines with pattern of 5,7,5,7,7 syllables
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villanelle
lyric poem written in three-line stanzas, ending in a four-line stanzas
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blank verse
poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter lines
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free verse
poetry not written in a regular rhythmical pattern or meter
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onomatopoeia
use of words that imitate sounds
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oxymoron
putting two contradictory words together
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alliteration
repition of initial consonant sounds
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repitition
use of any element of language, -sound, word, phrase, clause, or sentence- more than once
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rhythm
pattern of beats, or stesses, in spoken or written language
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rhyme
repitition of sounds at the ends of wordsface
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assonance
repitition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants in two or more stressed syllables
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conconance
repitition of similar consonant at the end of accented syllables
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couplet
pair of rhyming lines, usually of the same length and meter
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meter
rhymical pattern of a poem
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iamb
foot with one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
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trochee
foot with a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable
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anapest
foot with two unstressed syllables followed by one strong stress
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dactyl
foot with one strong stress followed by two unstressed syllables
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spondee
foot with two strong stresses
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tetrameter
verse written with four-foot lines
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pentameter
verse written with five-foot lines
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hexameter
verse written with six-foot lines
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heptameter
verse written with seven-foot lines
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metaphor
figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were somthing else
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simile
figure of speech in which like or as is used to make a comparison between two basically unlike ideas
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personification
type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics
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hyperbole
exaggeration or overstatement
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symbol
anything that stands for or represents something else
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understatement
understate the obvious
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imagery
discriptive or figurative language used in literature to create word pictures for the reader
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allusion
reference to a well known person, place, event, literary work or work of art
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analogy
comparison of two pairs which have the same relationship
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paradox
two opposing ideas
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synecdoche
one uses a part to represent the whole
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metonymy
substituting a word for another word closely associated with it
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apostrophe
inversion of the normal syntactic order of words
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euphony
soothing pleasant sounds
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cacophony
harsh, discordant sounds
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theme
central message or insight into life revealed through a literary work
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denotation
dictionary meaning, independent of other associations that the word may have
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connotation
set of ideas associated with it in addition to its explict meaning
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speaker
imiginary voice assumed by the writer of a poem
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tone
writer's attitude toward his or her audience for the main character
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mood
feeling created in a reader by a literary work or passage
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