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Alliteration

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A repetition of initial consonant sounds in adjacent words

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Acrostic poetry

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Poems in which the first letter in the text spells out a word or message

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Assonance

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Intentional repetition of internal vowel sounds

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Archaisms

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Words that are no longer in common use

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Cacophony

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A mixture of harsh, discordant and unpleasant sounds used to jar the reader’s attention

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Auditor

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To whom the poem is speaking

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Blank verse

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Unrhymed poetry, each line is iambic pentameter

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Consonance

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The intentional repetition of internal consonant sounds

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Confessional poetry

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An extremely candid and frank form of poetry

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Dramatic dialogue

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A form in which two or more people speak

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Couplet

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A pair of successive lines of poetry that rhyme

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Dramatic monologue

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Poem designed to be said by one person

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Free verse

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Does not conform to the traditional rules of poetry

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Epigraph

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A brief explanatory statement that sets the poem within its intended context

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Iambic pentameter

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The metrical pattern which consists of five iambic feet per lines, each iambic foot consists of one unstressed of stressed (pentameter means five per line)

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Haiku

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A Japanese style poem usually about nature, it is a complete thought 17 syllables, 3 lines, divided into 5, 7, 5

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Repetition

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Occurs when the poet repeats words, phrases or devices

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Lyric poetry

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Poems originally meant to be sung or chanted

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Rhyme

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Similarity of sounds of words

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Rhythm

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The pattern of stressed and unstressed sounds

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Metonymy

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Figure of speech that uses an attribute of a thing to stand in for the thing itself, inanimate objects taking the place of a person

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Sonnet

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Poem of 14 lines written in iambic pentameter, 3 quatrains, 1 concluding couplet (rhyme scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GG)

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Neologism

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A word entirely made up by the poet

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Stanza

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A group of two or more lines which make up a unit of poetry

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Persona

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The person who is speaking in the poem

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Syntax

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The order in which the words are placed

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