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Concrete Noun

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A concrete noun is a noun with a solid purpose you can identify. Opposite of an abstract noun

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Elongated vowel

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A vowel with a long sound ex. Long u sound like in tube, or lure

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Diphthong

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A dipthong is a sound formed by the combination of two vowels in a single syllable, in which the sound begins as one vowel and moves toward another.

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Monophone

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An old fashion word for phone

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Enjambment

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The continuation of a thought from one line, couplet, or stanza to the next without a syntactical break.

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Connotative or connotation

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An additional idea or emotion that is connected with a word, as opposed to its dictionary definition.

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Meter

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The repetition of a regular rhythmic unit, or poetic foot, in a line of poetry.

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Limerick

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A humorous, frequently rude, verse of three long and two short lines rhyming with the scheme aabba

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Foot pattern

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A poet foot is a basic repeated sequence of meter composed of two or more accented or unaccounted syllables. In the case of an iambic foot, the sequence is unaccented accented

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Word pattern

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It is a linking verb + a noun or linking verb + adjective

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Rules of Syllabication

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It is figuring out how to read big words

Ex. Sound it out

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True rhyme

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It is a type of rhyme in which the stressed vowel sounds in both words are identical, as are any sounds thereafter

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Slant rhyme

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It is a type of rhyme with words that have similar, bu not identical sounds. Most slant rhymes are formed by words with identical consonants and different vowels, or vice versa.

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Eye rhyme

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It is an imperfect rhyme in which two words are spelled similarly but pronounced differently (such as move love, bought though, come home, and laughter daughter).

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Trimester

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A line of verse consisting of three metrical feet.

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Tetrameter

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A verse of four measures

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Pentameter

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A line of verse consisting of five metrical feet

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Hexameter

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A line of verse consisting of six metrical feet

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Heptameter

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A line of verse consisting of seven metrical feet

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Epic poetry

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An epic poem is a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily involving a time beyond living memory in which occurred the extraordinary doing of the extraordinary men and women who do cool stuff

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Closed form poetry

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It consists of proms that follow patterns of lines, meter, rhymes, and stanzas, whereas open form does not. It follows specific rules

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Sonnet

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It is a poem or fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.

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Ode

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A lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner and written in varied or irregular meter.

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Ghazal

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A lyric poem with a fixed number of verses and a repeated rhyme, typically on the theme of love, and normally set to music

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Free verse

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Open form poetry, no consultant patterns, or any musical patterns. Just whatever kinda vibes

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Italian sonnet

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A sonnet consisting of an octave rhyming abba abba and a sestet rhyming in any of various patterns

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Scansion

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The action of scanning a line of verse to determine its rhythm

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Spondee

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A foot consisting of two long syllables

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Iamb

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A metrical foot consisting of one short syllable followed by one long by syllable

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Trochee

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A foot consisting of one long or stressed syllable followed by one short or more unstressed syllable

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Dactyl

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A metrical foot consisting of one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables or one long syllable by two short syllables

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Tribrach

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A metrical foot of three short syllables of which two belong to the thesis and one to the arsis

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Hyperbole

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Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally

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Pictographs

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A picture in poetry

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Satire

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The use of humor, irony, exaggeration or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues

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Verbal irony

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Is a figure of speech the speaker intends to be understood as meaning something that contrasts with the literal or usual meaning of what he says

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Dramatic irony

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When the readers knows something that the character does not.

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Situational irony

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When the exact opposite of what we expect to happen happens.

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Cosmic irony

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When people say “fate” or the Gods are toying with them.

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Rondel

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A rondeau especially one of thirteen or fourteen lines set in three stanzas, with only two rhymes throughout and a two line refrain that opens the poem and rescuers the end of the second and third stanzas.

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Haiku

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A japenesse poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five whatever’s

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Dramatic plot

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Structure up to the conflict resolution then down from there

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Synecdoche

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A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole of vice versa. Ex. Cleveland won by six runs, Cleveland is referring to Cleveland baseball team

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Paradox

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Absurd statements later found to be true

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Iambic pentameter

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A line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one short syllable followed by one long syllable.

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Monologue

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A long speech

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Ballad

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A poem or a song narrating a story in short stanzas.

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