Poetry vocab

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Character telling the story

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narrator

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Group of lines in a poem

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stanza

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Author's attitude towards the subject

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tone

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Overall emotion or feeling created by a story

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mood

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Giving human traits to non-human things

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Personification

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Pattern for end/middle rhymes

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rhyme scheme

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Repetition of initial consonant sounds

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alliteration

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Language appealing to the senses

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imagery

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Type of poem with 14 lines and a rhyme scheme

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sonnet

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5 pairs of unstressed and stressed syllables

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iambic pentameter