The Three of Us

Poetry Terms

1. AlliterationThe commencement of two or more words of a word group with the same letter, as in apt, alliteration's artful aid.
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AnalogyA similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based.
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Assonance- Resemblence of sounds, also called: vowel rhyme.
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Consonance- Correspondence of sounds; harmony of sounds.
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Ballad- A simple narrative poem of folk origin, composed in short stanzas and adopted for singing.
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BlankVerse- Unrhymed verse, especially the unrhymed iambic pentameter most often used in english dramatic, epic, and reflective verse.
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FigurativeLanguage- Speed of writing that departs form literal menaing in order to achieve a special effect or meaning, speech or writing employing figuares of speech.
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FreeVerse- Unrhymed verse without a metrical pattern;.
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Haiku- A major form of Japenese verse, written in 17 syllables divided into 3 lines of 5, 7, and 5, syllables, and employing highly evocative allusions and comparisons, often on the subject of nature of the seasons. 
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Imagery- The formation of mental images, figuares, or likenesses of the things, or of such images collectively. 
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LyricPoem- A short poem of songlike quality.
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NarrativePoem- A poem that tells a story and has a plot.
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Ode- A lyric poem typically of elaborate of irregualr metrical form and expressive of exaited or enthusiastic emotion.
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Rhyme- Identify in sound of some part, especially the end of words.
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Rhythm- Movment or procedure with uniform ar  patterned recurrence a beat or accent.
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ShakespeareanSonnet- a sonnet form used by shakespear and having a certain rhyme scheme.
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PetrachanSonnet- Original Italian form of 14 lines into 2 parts anctect and a sextet.