english focab
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- Ballad
- is a poem that tell a story
- cinquain
- poem are 5 lines in lenght
- Elegy
- is a poem that states a poet's sadness about death of an important person
- Epic
- a long story poem that describes the adventure or a hero
- Free Verse
- is poetry that dose not require (regular rhythm) or a rhyme scheme
- Haiku
- is a type of Japanese poetry that reprents a picture of nature.
- limerick
- is a humorous verse of 5 lines
- clerihew
- humorous of light verse
- concrete poetry
- poetry in which the shape or design helps express the meaning or feeling of the poem
- title down
- in which the letters that spell the subject of the poem are used to begin each line
- alliteration
- the repeating of brginning consonat sounds
- assonance
- the repetition of vowel sounds
- consonance
- the repetition of consonants sounds anywhere within words not just at the beginning
- stanza
- a divison in a poem
- onomatopoeia
- the use of a word whose sounds makes you think
- quatrain
- a 4 line stanza
- couplet
- a 2 lines of verse that use rhyme and state 1 complete idea
- simile
- a figure of speech that compares 2 things using like/as
- metaphore
- a figure of speech that compares 2 things without using like/as
- rhyme
- organized in patterns
- rhythm
- pattern of accerted
- foot
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1 unit of meter ther are 5 basic feet
ianlsic
Anapestic
Trochaic
Dactylic
spondaic