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Rhyme

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The repetition of a stressed vowel sound and any sounds that follow it in words that are close together in a poem

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Rhyme scheme

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A regular pattern of end rhymes

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End rhymes

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Rhymes in poetry occurring at the ends

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Internal rhymes

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Occur when at least one of the rhymed words falls with in a line

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Approximate rhyme

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Repeat sounds but are not exact echoes, also called half rhymes, neat rhymes, and slant rhymes

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Rhythm

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A musical quality based on repetition

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Meter

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A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in the lines of a poem

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A foot

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Consists of one stressed syllable and one or more unstressed syllables

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iamb

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A foot that has an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable

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Onomatopoeia

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Using words that sound like what they mean

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Alliteration

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Repeating the same consonant sound in several words

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Assonance

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Repetition of vowel sounds in several words

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Speaker

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The voice that speaks to us

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Lyric poem

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Express a speakers emotions or thoughts

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Free verse

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Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme

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Haiku

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A three lined poem, with seventeen syllables, five in line one and three and seven in line two

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Sonnet

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A fourteen- line lyric poem

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Catalog poem

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Presents a list of many different images

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Ballad

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A song that tells a story

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Image

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A word or phrase that appeals to one or more of our five senses

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Sensory details

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Elements that help you imagine how something looks, sounds, smells, feels, or tastes

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Direct metaphor

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Directly compares two things by using a verb such as is

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Implied metaphor

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Implies or suggests a comparison between two things

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Figurative language

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Literally said

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Just read it- 1,2,3,4?

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1st

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Read line by line, idea by idea, paraphrase each chunk

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3rd

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Read for a main idea or topic

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2nd

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Read for meaning or theme

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4th

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