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| haiku is an unrhymed verse form of Japanese origin having three lines containing syllables of five-seven-five. A poem in this form usually has a seasonal reference or pertains to nature |
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| Ballad is a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas. Ballads are typically passed on from one generation to the next as a part of folk culture. They use four line stanzas and follow the rhyme scheme ABCB |
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| Acrostic poetry is a poetry where certain letters in each Line spell out a word or phrase. Typically, the first letters of a line are used to spell the message, but they can appear anywhere. |
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| Cinquain is a five-line stanza in verse with 3 patterns |
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| Limerick is a humorous verse of three long and two short lines of rhyming “aabba” a - long about 10 syllables b - short about 5 - 7 syllables |
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| giving human traits to inhuman things |
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| the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. |
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| a two line verse usually joined with a rhyme |
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| the way the text should make you feel and how the author's mood comes through the text. |
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| a comparison without using like or as |
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| a comparison using like or as |
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| describing something to have the reader imagine it visually in their head. |
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| A rhythm is the unstressed and stressed syllables of a poem. |
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| an organization that seperates a section of a word that has one vowel sound that may be surrounded by consonants. |
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| a section of the poem that consists of one line of text. |
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| the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of the poem |
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| words that sound the same or endings that sound the same. |
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| a paragraph of the poem made up of lines. |
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