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The repetition of the same sounds at the beginning of two or more adjacent words or stressed syllables.
What is ALLITERATION?
A repeating cadence/meter that enriches or emphasizes words, phrases, lines, and even whole verses of poems.
What is REPETITION?
A comparison of two unlike things using the words "like" or "as."
What is a SIMILE?
Short poems expressing personal feelings and emotions that may be set to music and often involves the use of regular meter.
What is LYRICAL POETRY?
A two line stanza.
a couplet
Two words or lines that end in the same sound.
What is RHYME?
The use of words that sound like what they mean; words that represent a sound.
What is ONOMATOPOEIA?
A direct comparison between two objects with the intent of giving clearer meaning to one of them.
What is a METAPHOR?
Poetry that tells a story to entertain.
What is NARRATIVE POETRY?
The foot that includes a stressed syllable (/) followed by an unstressed syllable (u).
Trochaic
Regular patterns that emphasize sound; the beat.
What is RHYTHM?
The pattern of rhyming lines.
What is RHYME SCHEME?
Non-human things are represented as having human qualities or characteristics.
What is PERSONIFICATION?
A fourteen line poem usually written in iambic pentameter with FOUR stanzas.
Shakespearean Sonnet
The division of a poem composed of two or more lines characterized by meter, rhyme, and number of lines.
What is a STANZA?
The Rhyme scheme of this poem
The people along the sand
All turn and look one way.
They turn their back on the land.
They look at the sea all day.
As long as it takes to pass
A ship keeps raising its hull;
The wetter ground like glass
Reflects a standing gull.
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The repetition of internal or ending consonant sounds close together.
What is CONSONANCE?
The use of language to create mental images and sensory impressions.
What is IMAGERY?
This form of poem can be generalized as a formal address to an event, a person, or a thing not present
Ode
A seven line stanza is called...
Heptastich
The basic rhythmic structure in verse composed of stressed and unstressed syllables; it stresses the number and patterns of syllables.
What is METER?
The repetition of vowel sounds in words close together.
What is ASSONANCE?
An intentional and extreme exaggeration for emphasis or effect.
What is a HYPERBOLE?
This form of poem is traditionally written in response to the death of a person or group
Elegy
The meter and foot of the following line of poetry:
When I do count the clock that tells the time
iambic pentameter