poetry
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- tone
- writer's attitude torward subject; the mood of the poem
- pun
- humorous use of language
- metaphor
- comparing things between 2 things not using like or as
- alliteration
- repetition of the same sounds; ex: luscious lemons
- theme
- the big idea, something the poet wants to understand, main message
- narrative
- a poem that tells a story
- imagery
- language poet uses to address one of the 5 senses
- ballad
- a traditionally passed down story
- limerick
- a rhymed humorous or nonesense poem
- speaker/persona
- voice used by the poet
- allusion
- brief reference to a person, place, thing, event, or idea in history, art, and literature
- symbol
- an important object, person, place, etc. in the poem that represents something
- free verse
- ordinary or plain everyday language used in speech or writing with no patterns or rhymes
- cinquain
- a short, usually unrhymed poem consisting of 22 syllables
- diamante
- a seven-lined contrast poem set up in a diamond shape
- acrostic
- the first letter of each line spells a word
- epic
- long narrative on a serious subject
- line
- sequence of words printed separately on a page
- meter
- rythmic pattern of stresses that appear in a poem
- rhyme scheme
- pattern of end rhymes
- haiku
- an unrhymed Japanese verse consisting of 3 lines of 5, 7, or 17 syllables in all
- repetition
- a repeating sound, line, syllable, etc.
- shakespearean sonnet
- poem arranged into 3 quatrains and a couplet
- oxymoron
- a phrase that shouldn't make sense but does; two opposites put together
- rhyme
- repetition of identical and concluding syllables
- stanza
- grouping of lines set off by a space
- personification
- human characteristics that are given to un-human things