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Simile.
What is "An example".
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Examples are AABBCCD and ABABCCD.
What is a rhyme scheme.
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A comparison of two unalike things using like or as.
What is a simile?
100
a song or song-like poem that tells a story.
Ballad
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a seemingly contradictory idea or statement that may actually be true
What is a paradox?
200
Give me an example of a metaphor
Any comparison of two things that are unalike without using like or as.
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Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme.
What is a couplet?
200
reference to a person, place, thing, or event that is known from literature, history, or other aspects of culture
What is an Allusion.
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fourteen-line lyric poem that may have one of several rhyme schemes.
What is a sonnet
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overstatement or exaggeration of actions, emotions, or other qualities. ..."I have seen this river so wide it only had one bank." Twain
What is Hyperbole?
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Give me an example of a couplet.
Any 2 rhyming lines.
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a group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit.
What is a stanza.
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The ordinary form of spoken or written language.
What is poetry
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Poetry that has no regular meter or rhyme scheme.
Blank Verse
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a repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines.
Refrain
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Give me an example of Blank Verse
Any poetry that has no set meter or rhyme scheme.
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The alteration of stressed and unstressed syllables; beat
What is the meter?
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a Japanese verse form consisting of three lines and seventeen syllables.
What is a Haiku
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often a poem that mourns the dead.
Elegy
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a repetition of initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words. ...like "rough and ready"
Alliteration
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Give me an example of feminine rhyme.
Last two syllables must rhyme
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The shifting of sentence or idea endings from one line to the middle of the next is known as?
Enjambment
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The ordinary form of spoken or written language.
What is prose.
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a metrical foot used in various types of poetry
Iambic Pentameter
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repetition of consonant sounds in stressed syllables without repetition of vowel sounds.
Consonance