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Poetry Terms
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9th Grade
03/04/2014

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Lyric Peom
Definition
A peom expressing the observations and feelings of a single person
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Free Verse Poetry
Definition
Poetry not writtened in a regular, rhythmical pattern, or meter.
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Haiku
Definition
3 line poem with 17 syllables
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Sonnet
Definition
A 14 line lyric poem with a single theme
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Ballad
Definition

A song that tells a story

 

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Sensory Detail
Definition
Elements that in fluence imagery through the 5 senses
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Assonance
Definition
The repetition of vowel sound
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Rhyme
Definition
The repetition of sounds at the ends of vowels
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Hyperbole
Definition
an extreme exageration
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Rhyme scheme
Definition
The regeular pattern of rhyming words in a poem or stanza
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End Rhyme
Definition
Words that rhyme at the end of the line
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Internal Rhyme
Definition
Words that rhyme within a line
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Approximate Rhyme
Definition

Words that repeat some sounds

(aka half, slant, or near rhyme)

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Stanza
Definition
Group of lines in a poem, which is seen as a unit
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Couplet
Definition
A pair of rhyming lines written in the same meter
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Idiom
Definition
an expression
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Rhythm
Definition
The musical quality based on repetition
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Meter
Definition
The rhythmical pattern of a poem
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Foot
Definition
The stresses that are divided by vertical lines into groups
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Iamb
Definition
A foot with one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable
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Prose
Definition
ordinary form of written language and one of the 3 major types if literature
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Poetry
Definition

One of the 3 major types/genres of literatures

 

literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm; poems collectively or as a genre of literature.
 
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Anaphora
Definition

The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases or verse for poetic effect

 

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