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Meter

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A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllable in a poem that creates a rhythm

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Foot

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A unit of meter, 2 or 3 syllables in length

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Iamb

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An unstressed, stressed syllable pattern

˘ /

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Free Verse

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A poem without a specific rhyme scheme or meter

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Blank Verse

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Consists of lines of unrhymed iambic pentameter (5 iambs per line, so 10 syllables)

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Sonnet

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A 14 line poem with a specific rhyme scheme and meter

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English/Elizabethan/Shakespearean Sonnet

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Written in iambic pentameter, consists of 3 quatrains and a couplet with a rhyme scheme of ABAB CDCD EFEF GG, a theme in the quatrain would be resolved in the couplet

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Italian/Petrarchan Sonnet

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Written in iambic pentameter, consists of an octave and a sestet with rhyme scheme of ABBA ABBA CDE CDE, issue is set up in octave and resolved in sestet

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Haiku

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a three line poem that is unrhymed, consisting of 17 syllables, about a specific instance of time, traditionally goes 5 7 5 syllables per line

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Lymerick

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A five line nonsense poem, rhyme scheme of AABBA (B lines are usually shorter than A lines)

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Ballad

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A longer, narrative poem with a high musical quality, rhymes but has no specific rhyme scheme

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Ode

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A lyrical poem dedicated to elevating a single topic

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Epic

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A long narrative poem written in an elevated language and style

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Narrative

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A poem that tells a story

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Lyric

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A short, rhymed poem that expresses intense emotion

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Concrete

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A poem that visually looks like what it’s about

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Personification

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Giving human attributes/characteristics to an object, animal or a concept

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Image

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A word “picture” of any sense impression, not necessarily the visual

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Abstract

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Refers to ideas and concepts

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Literal Image

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Aims to replicate in words the object or experience

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Figurative Image

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Likens an object or experience to something else

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Paradox

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An apparent contradiction that is nevertheless true

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Oxymoron

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Combines contradictory things

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Metaphor

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A means of comparing two items with implied comparison

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Simile

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A means of comparing two items with comparison expressed by a word or phrase (like, as, than, similar to, resembles, seems)

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Metonymy

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The use of something closely related for the actual thing

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Synecdoche

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The use of a part for the whole

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Synesthesia

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One sensory perception is expressed in terms of a different sense

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Ambiguity

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A property of symbols and metaphors that allow them to have multiple interpretations

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Symbol

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Something used to represent something else

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Hyperbole

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An overstated exaggeration

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Parallelism

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When lines in a poem are similar in terms of wording or sentence structure

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Elison

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getting rid of syllables in a word and replacing them with an apostrophe in order to keep the meter

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Enjambment

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The continuation of a sentence over a line break

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Tenor

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The object of comparison (If one is missing, metaphor is implied/submerged)

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Vehicle

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The thing the tenor is being turned into (If one is missing, metaphor is implied/submerged)

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Alliteration

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The repetition of initial consonant sounds

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Assonance

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The repetition of vowel sounds

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Consonance

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The repetition of identical, internal consonant sounds

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Exact/Perfect Rhyme

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The words rhyme perfectly

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Eye/Historical Rhyme

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Words that look like they should rhyme but don’t

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Near/Approximate/Slant Rhyme

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Words that almost rhyme

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End Rhyme

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When rhyme occurs at the end of the line

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Internal Rhyme

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When rhyme occurs between the last word in the line and a word within that line

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