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End Rhyme

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Repitition of identical sounds at the end of successive lines.

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Slant, off, and near rhymes

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Sounds that are close but not exact duplicates

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Internal rhyme

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Two or more words that rhyme in an individual line of poetry

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Couplets

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Lines coming in pairs, rhymed and usually in the same meter

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Triplets (tercets)

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Lines tgat come in threes

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Onomatopoeia

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Words that virtually replicate a sound

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Alliteration

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Repition of initial spunds in words and syllables

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Assonance

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Repition of similar vowel sounds

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Consonance

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Repition of consonants appearing within a line or at the end of words

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Meter (measure)

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Basis of patterns of rhythm. Analyzed based upon the number and arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables

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Foot

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Unit of measurement for meter

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Disyllabic

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Poetic feet consisting of two syllables

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Trisyllabic

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Poetic feet consisting of three syllables

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/

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Seperate poetic feet when analyzing meter

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U

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Represents an unstressed sylllable when analyzing meter

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—

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Represents a stressed syllable when analyzing meter

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Iamb

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U—

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Trochee

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—U

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Spondee

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— —

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Dactyl

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—UU

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Anapest

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UU—

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Scansion

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Process of analyzing meter

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Caesura

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Internal pause in poetry, ususally indicated by a period, semicolon, dash, or other mark of punctuation

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Enjambment

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Run-on. Absence of punctuation and eliminate the need to pause

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Free verse

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Poetry itnoring meter and rythm conventions

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Blank verse (unrhymed verse)

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Incorporates conventional meter

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Stanzas

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Grouped lines of verse serving as a poem’s building blocks
Couplet, tercet (terza rima), quatrain, cinquain, sestet

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Diction

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Poet’s choice of words

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Tropes

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Figures of speech, on the foundation of comparisons generally

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Metaphor

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Comparison

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Simile

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Comparison using like or as

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Image

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Words and phrases referring to something that can be seen, heard, tasted, smelled, or touched

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Personification

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When poet assigns human characteristics to a nonhuman object or abstraction.

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Metonymy

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Figure of speech that substitutes a word or phrase that relates to a thing for the thing itself

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Synecdoche

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Substitutes a part from the whole, very similar to metonymy

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Allusion

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Historical, literary, or cultural reference to a person, place, or thing

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Allegory

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Story or vignette that has both a literal and a figurative meaning

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Oxymoron

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Phrase that seems self-contradictory or incompatible with reality

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Paradox

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Something that seems contradictory but upon closer inspection makes sense

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Understatement

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Principal source if power in poetry

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Litotes

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Form of understatement in which a positive fact is stated by denying a negative one

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Hyperbole or overstatement

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Exaggeration

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Tone

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Poet/speaker’s attitude toward the subject of the poem, the reader, or himself

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Irony

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Verbal=implied contrast between what exists and what might be

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Narrative poem

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Tells part or all of a story

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Lyric poem

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Express an individual’s thoughts and emotions

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Metaphysical

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Describes lyric poems containing verses on the nature of thought and theory

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Romantic poetry

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Refers to literary movement constituting a protest against the classic formalism that long influenced poetry. Tend to focus on inner experience and feelings. Dreams, nature, etc.

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Ballad

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Originally sung, folk ballads tell stories about life, death, heroism, love, murder, and betrayal.

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Dramatic monologue

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Poem spoken by one person to a listener

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Elegy (dirge)

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Poem of mourning and meditation

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Limerick

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One of the most popular lighter forms. Built on two rhymes with third and fourth lines shorter than the others. Often a curious rhyme or a pun in the last line

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Ode

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Ancient form of poetic song, celebratory poem.

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Sonnet

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14 line lyric poems. Each line ten syllables. Often iambic pentameter and often express one main idea or thought

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Villanelle

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19-line poem with 5 three-line stanzas and a concluding quatrain

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