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| highly musical verse the expresses the observations and feelings of a single speaker |
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| poetry that uses the technique of drama |
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| song like poem that tells a story, often of adventure or romance |
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| a 14-line poem, usually written in rhymed iambic pentameter |
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| poem with a shape that suggests its subject |
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| a long narrative or narrative poem about the deeds of gods or heroes |
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| three-line verse form; 5:7:5 syllables: seeks to convey a single vivid emotion by means of images from nature |
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| a tanka consists of five unrhymed lines with a pattern of five, seven, five, seven, and seven syllables |
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| a lyric poem written in 3-line stanzas ending with a four-line stanza. it has two refrain lines that appear initially in the first a third lines of the first stanza; then they appear alternately as the third line of subsequent stanzas, and finally as the last two lines of the poem |
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| poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter lines |
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| poetry not written in a regular rhythmical pattern or meter; seeks to capture the rhythms of speech |
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| the use of words that imitate sounds |
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| putting two contradictory words together |
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| the repetition of initial consonant sounds |
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| the use of any element of language more than once |
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| the repetition of sounds at the ends of words |
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| the repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants in two or more stressed syllables |
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| the repetition of similar consonant sounds at the end of accented syllables |
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| a pair of rhyming lines usually of the same length and meter; expresses a single idea |
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| a poem's rhythmical pattern |
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| a foot with one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable |
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| a foot with a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable |
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| a foot with two unstressed syllables followed by one strong syllable |
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| a foot with one strong stress followed by two unstressed syllables |
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| a foot with two strong stresses |
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| verse written in 4-foot lines |
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| verse written in 5-foot lines |
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| verse written in 6-foot lines |
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| verse written in 7-foot lines |
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| a figure of speech in which like or as is used to make a comparison between two basically unlike ideas |
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| a figure of speech in which like or as is used to make a comparison between two basically unlike ideas |
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| a type of figurative speech in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics |
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| exaggeration or overstatement |
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| anything that stands for or represents something else; has its own meaning but also represent abstract ideas |
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| the descriptive or figurative language used in literature to create words pictures for the reader |
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| a reference to a well-known person, place event, literary work or work of art |
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| the comparison of two pairs which have the same relationship |
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| when one uses a part to represent the whole |
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| substituting a word for another closely associated with it |
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| when an absent person, an abstract concept, or an important object is directly adressed |
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