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"I Dwell in Possibility"
Emily Dickinson
"Success is Counted Sweetest"
Emily Dickinson
assonance
repition of similar vowel sounds, as in deep, beneath, and dreamless.
"La Belle Dame San Merci"
John Keats
"Conscientious Objector"
Edna St Vincent Millay
speaker
imaginary voice assumed by the writer of a poem
"The Stolen Child"
William Butler Yeats
repition
repeated words
"Reapers"
Jean Toomer
atmosphere
mood or the overall feeling that the story or poem conveys
sonnet
14 line poem in iambic pentameter
haiku
unrhymed lyric poem of 3 lines of 5,7,5 syllables. usually has an image of nature
rhyme
words that have the same sounds
aphorism
brief memorable saying that expresses a basic truth
"Meeting at NIght"
Robert Browning
"The Waking"
Theodore Roethke
alliteration
repition of initial consonant sounds
dramatic poem
causes the illusion that the reader is actually witnessing a dramatic event
"The Wind-tapped like a Tired Man"
Emily Dickinson
onomatopoeia
use of words to imitate actual sounds, as in tap, bang, swish
"Danny Deever"
Rudyard Kipling
imagery
description of figurative language that creates word pictures
tanka
5 unrhymed lines of 5,7,5,7 and 7 syllables
villanelle
lyric poem written in 3 line stanzas and ending in 4 line stanza
universal theme
message about life that can be understood by most cultures
musical devices
such as alliteration, onomatopoeia, assonance, consonance, meter, and repition and rhyme-gives poem a musical quality
tone
writers attitude toward his or her audience and subject
"The Kraken"
Alfred Lord Jennyson
"After Apple Picking"
Robert Frost
narrative poem
tells a story
"The Weary Blues"
Langston Hughes
"Jazz Fantasia"
Carl Sandburg
lyric poem
poem that expresses vivid thoughts and feelings
"The Old Stoic"
Emily Bronte
"Mowing"
Robert Frost
meter
formal organization of rhythms; a pattern of alternating stressed and unstressed syllables
consonance
repition of similar consonant sounds at the ends of accented syllables
"Sonnet 18"
William Shakespeare

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