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Narrative
tells a story
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Lyric
a poem with one speaker who expresses thought and feeling
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Formal
follows a particular form with specific demands on length, rhyme scheme, etc.
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Free Verse
does not follow a particular form
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Stanza
basic division of a poem
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Line
like a sentence in a prose, but doesn't have to be a whole sentence
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End-stopped lines
a line that has a natural pause at the end (e.g. period, comma)
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Enjambment
the continuation of a sentence or clause over a line-break
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Caesura
a natural pause internal to a line, usually in the middle
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Volta
italian for "turn", shift or dramatic change in thought and/or emotion
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Couplet
Two rhyming lines
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Quatrain
a stanza of four lines
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Sestet
a stanza of six lines
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Octave
A stanza of 8 lines
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Metaphor
describing smth as smth else
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figurative language
language using figures of speech
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Simile
metaphor using like or as
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Personification
giving human qualities to smth non-human
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Apostrophe
a direct address to a person, thing, or abstraction; often capitalized
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Oxymoron
a statement with two parts which seem contradictary
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Allusion
refrence lends meaning of alluded story in addition
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Pun
use of words in such a way as to suggest two or more of its meanings
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Assonance
repetition of vowel sounds within words
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Alliteration
first letter repetition
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Consonance
repeated consonant sound within words (ex: pitter-patter)
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Onomatopoeia
sound words (i.e. WHAM!!, CRASH!!, SPLAT!)
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Cacophony
harsh, gutteral "d" "t" "k" 's
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Euphony
hushed, pleasing "m" "l" "s" 's
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Lambic pentameter
lines consist of 10 syllabus of alternating stress pattern
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End rhyme
occuring at the end of two or more lines of verse
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Internal rhyme
occurs between two or more words in the same line of verse
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Masculine rhyme
one syllable rhymes with one syllable of another word (i.e. bright, light)
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Feminine rhyme
occurs when the last two syllables of a word rhyme with another (i.e. lighting, fighting)
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Slant Rhyme
when words sound similar but don't rhyme exactly (i.e. notion, nation)
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Rhyme Scheme
pattern or sequence in which rhyme occurs (a,b,a,b)
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