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| tells a story, like a short story or novel, narrative poem has the following elements: characters, setting, plot, point of view. all combine to create a theme. |
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| a poem that tells a story and is meant to be sung or recited |
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| a short poem where a single speaker expresses personal thoughts and feelings-covers many feelings from love and death |
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| a lyric poem in which a speaker addresses a silent or absent listener in a moment of high interesting or deep tone |
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| a lyric poem of 14 lines, commonly written in iambic pentameter-typically has 3-four line stanzas and a final couplet (rhyme scheme is "abab cdcd efef gg" |
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| poetry that does not contain a regular pattern of rhyme or meter |
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| unrhymed verse, esp. the unrhymed iambic pentameter most frequently used in English dramatic, epic, and reflective verse. |
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| a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things that are basically unalike but have something in common. |
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| a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things using like or as |
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| a figure of speech in which human qualities are attributed to an object, animal, or idea. |
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| descriptive words/phrases that help the reader to imagine exactly what is being described-appeals to one or more of the 5 senses. |
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| the feeling or atmosphere that the writer creates for the reader |
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| a person, place an activity, or an object that stands for something beyond itself. |
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| pattern in a poem charted by a letter in the alphabet beginning with the letter a, to each line.lines that rhyme have the same letter. |
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| rhyming that occurs at the end of the line of a poem |
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| two consecutive lines of end rhyme |
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| rhyme that occurs inside a line of a poem |
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the repetition of constant sounds at the beginning of words:
the Boy Brought a Brown Bag to the Beach |
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words that sound like the meaning
Example: Word= vrooom meaning=car |
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the repetition of vowel sounds within words:
Example: the cAt in the hAt sAt on the mAt |
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the consonant sounds rhyme
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forcED/burST |
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| The act or process or an instance of repeating or being repeated. |
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| the repetition of one or more lines in each stanza of a poem |
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| the pulse or beat we feel in a line of prose, poetry, or music-a pattern of regularly reoccurring accents or stresses on the syllables of words in a poem. |
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the rhythmical pattern that is determined by the number and types of stresses, or beats, in each line, two fixed units.
--foot:patterns of stresses
--line:measured by the number of feet in it. |
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