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Lines

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May or may not be complete sentences and vary in length

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Form

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The way a poem’s words and lines are laid out.

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Stanzas

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Lines that are arranged into groups

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Speaker

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The voice that talks to the reader.

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Traditional poetry

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Poems that followed fixed rules

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Free verse poetry

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Ideas drive each line

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Sound devices

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Devices we use to make a poem sound .Rhythm, rhyme, repitition, alliteration

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Rhyme

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Repetition of sound at the end of words.

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Rythem

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The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in each line

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Repetition

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A word,phrase or line that is used more than once.

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Allitoration

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The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.

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Assonance

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Repetition of vowel sound within the same line

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Imagery

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5 senses

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Figurative Language

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Language used to over exaggerate something

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Simile

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A comparison between two unlike things using the word like or as.

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Metaphor

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A comparison between two unlike things that does not use the words like or as.

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Personification

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The description of an object,animal,idea,or a place as if it were a human or had human qualities.

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Couplet

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Rhymed pairs of lines

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Recurring theme

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Theme that occurs over again

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Lyric poem ( free verse)

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A short poem that has one speaker who shares their thoughts without rules.

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Lyric poem ( traditional)

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A short poem that has one speaker who shares their thoughts with rules.

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Sonnet

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A poem with exactly 14 lines

With rhyme and rythem

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Ode

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a lyric poem typically of elaborate or irregular metrical form and expressive of exalted or enthusiastic emotion.

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