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| language that appeals to the senses by describing how something looks, feels, smells, tastes, or sounds |
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| series of events that make up a story |
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| group of words REPEATED at intervals in a poem, song, or speech |
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| poetry that expresses emotion |
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| a story poem that is sung |
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| repetition of accented vowel sound and all sounds that follow in words close together (battle, cattle) |
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| group of consecutive lines of poetry that forms a single unit (like paragraphs in an essay) |
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| poetry that has no set pattern of rhyme or rhythm |
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| lyric poem that has 14 lines |
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| a poem that tells a story |
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| gives a poem its musical quality |
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| overall feeling created by a poem, story, or other work of literature |
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| voice talking in the poem |
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| shorter than a novel, but longer than a short story |
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| regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables |
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| rhythmic, compressed language that uses figures of speech and imagery to appeal to emotion and imagination |
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| a pattern of rhymes that occurs througout a poem (aabbcc ddeeff) |
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| a humorous five-line poem |
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| struggle between opposing forces or characters |
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| a poem that pays tribute, or honors, something or someone of great importance to the poet |
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| mourns the passing of someone or something that is very important to the writer ("Annabel Lee" is an example of this kind of poetry.) |
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| rhyme that occurs at end of lines of poetry |
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| rhyme that occurs when words within lines of poetry rhyme |
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