Poetry Vocab

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alliteration

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repeating initial sounds

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Autobiography

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The story of a person's life written by that person.

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bio

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Greek root meaning life

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Biography

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A story of a person's life.

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couplet

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a rhyming pair of lines

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express

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to let out feelings and emotions

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free verse

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poetry that does not rhyme

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hyperbole

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wild exaggeration

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limerick

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a humorous poem with an aabba pattern

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Line break in poetry

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Where the lines stop in poetry