Poetry Vocab

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Poems consist of words divided into...

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Lines

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Repetition of same or similar vowel sounds

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Rhyme

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Pattern of unstressed & stressed syllables in poetry

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Meter

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Poems are categorized by... (e.g., villanelle, sonnet, epic, ode)

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Poetic form

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Arrangement of words.

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Syntax

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Conventions of a language.

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Grammar

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Poets use ( ) to enhance their writing. (E.g., metaphor, simile, personification, idiom, etc.)

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Figurative language

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A poem in iambic pentameter with 5 tercets, 1 quatrain, and an ABA rhyme-scheme.

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Villanelle

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Group of lines in a poem.

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Stanza

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Comparison of two unlike things, often using 'like' or 'as'.

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Simile