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Poetry Terms
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English
9th Grade
06/09/2011

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Blank Verse
Definition
Rhythm no rhyme
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Free Verse
Definition
No Rhyme or rhythm
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Stanza
Couplet
Quatrain
Definition
Group of Verses
Two successive lines
Four line stanza
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Rhythm
Definition
Beat of words
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Rhyme
Definition
Repetition of same sounds
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Imagery
Definition
Vivid sensory detail
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Simile
Definition
Two objects that are different are compared. Like or as
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Metaphor
Definition
Two things are identified with each other
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Alliteration
Definition
Same initial consonant used in two or more words
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Assonance
Definition
Partial rhymes from repetition of the same vowel sounds
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Hyperbole
Definition
Exaggeration
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Apostrophe
Definition
A figure in which an inanimate object is adressed as if it was alive
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Consonance
Definition
Consonant sounds do not appear in beginning of word
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Allusion
Definition
Reference to history
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Synecdoche
Definition
Part to represent whole
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Metonymy
Definition
Substitution of a word naming an object for another closely associated with it
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