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Narrative poetry

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Tells a story. A narrative poem is a story told in verse. Narrative poems often have all the elements of short stories, including characters, conflict, and plot.

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Lyric poetry

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Expresses thought and feelings. Lyric poetry is a verse that expresses a poet's thoughts and feelings about a single image of idea. Lyric poetry is written in vivid, musical language.

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Haiku

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Uses a few short lines to create a single vivid picture. Haiku is a traditional form of Japanese poetry. A haiku always has three lines and seventeen syllables. There are five syllables in the first and third lines and seven syllables in the second line. The typical topic is nature.

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Concrete poetry

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Uses the arrangement of letters in the poem to suggest a shape. A concrete poem is one in which the shape suggests its subject. The poet arranges the letters and lines to create a visual image.

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Stanzas

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A group of lines that might be thought of as corresponding to a paragraph in prose. Most traditional English poems are divided into stanzas. Stanzas are like a paragraph.

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Punctuation

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Poets use punctuation the same way prose writers do: to show where thoughts begin and end and how they relate.

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Form

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Form refers to the physical structure of the poem and the rules that poet follows to achieve a particular structure.

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Meter

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The meter of a poem is its rhythmical pattern. This pattern is determined by the number of stresses, or beats, in each line. To describe the meter of a poem, read it emphasizing the beats in each line. Meter is measured in feet, or single units of stressed and unstressed syllables.

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Rhythm

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Is a poem's pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.

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Rhyme

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Is the repetition of a sound at the ends of nearby words. These poems have end rhymes the rhyming words appear at the end of lines. The arrangement of rhyming lines varies from poem to poem. And is used to emphasize certain words and ideas.

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End rhyme

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The last word of a line rhymes with the last word of another line. A poem's rhyme scheme is the end-rhyme pattern.

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Exact rhyme

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Word endings sound exactly alike, but the beginnings are different, as in disgrace and place.

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Half rhymes

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Word sounds are similar but not identical, as in squirrel and quarrel.

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Rhyme scheme

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A rhyme scheme is a regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem. To indicate the rhyme scheme of a poem, one uses lowercase letters. Each rhyme is assigned a different letter.

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Internal rhyme

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Rhyming words within lines. It emphasizes the flowing nature of a poem.

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Figurative language(or figures of speech)

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used to add meaning to poems. This language is not intended to be taken literally. It sets up comparisons that help readers see things in a new way or form a vivid mental picture of something.

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Simile

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A comparison between two unlike things using like or as. A simile is a figure of speech. NOT meant to be taken literally.

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Metaphor

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A comparison between two unlike things not using like or as. A metaphor is a figure of speech. NOT meant to be taken literally.

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Extended metaphor

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A subject is spoken or written of as though it is something else. Several connected comparisons are made, unlike regular metaphors.

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Hyperbole

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Exaggeration use to produce a particular effect. "Chilled through to the bone".

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Personification

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Giving human characteristics to a non-human subject. "The stars were dancing heel to toe"

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Alliteration

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The repetition of initial constant sounds. Alliteration is used to draw attention to certain words or ideas, to imitate sounds, and to create musical effects. Repetition of a sound at the beginnings of nearby words. "Full fathom five thy father lies"

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Consonance

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Repetition of a similar final consonant sound at the ends of words or accented syllables

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Assonance

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Repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words. "Would blend again and again."

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Theme

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Central message concern or purpose. Can be expressed as a generalization about human beings or about life. It is NOT a summary of its plot. It is the writer's central idea. Usually presented indirectly.

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Onomatopoeia

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Use of words that sound like or mimic the things they describe. The sounds suggest their meaning. "Sputter"

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