What is Poetry
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- rhyming couplets
- 2 lines in which the last word in each line rhymes
- Assonance
- the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words as in blaze and maze
- Haiku
- a japenese poem, three lines, five, seven, five syllables
- Meter
- rhythmical pattern in poem
- Metaphors
- describe one thing as if it were something else
- Narrative
- consisting of or characterized by the telling of a story
- Concrete
- poems that are shaped to look like their subject
- Stanza
- lines of poetry grouped together
- Personification
- gives human-like qualities to something
- Repitition
- sounds, words, phrases, lines or stanzaz are repeated for emphasis
- Consonance
- the repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the ends of words
- Rhyme
- repitition of sounds at the ends of words as in speech and teach
- symbol
- represents something
- Limericks
- often humorous five-line verse; rhyme scheme (aabba)
- Ballads
- songlike poems that tell a story often dealing w/ adventure and/or romance
- Alliteration
- repitition of consonant sounds in the beginning of words Ex: slippery slope
- Lyric
- a short poem of songlike quality
- Similies
- Compares two different things using like or as
- Onomotopoeia
- use of words that imitate sounds-CRASH, BANG, HISS
- Free Verse
- poetry defined by its lack of strict structure