Literary Terms

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Text Evidence

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evidence from a text that supports ideas and arguments

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Theme

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an insight about human life that is revealed in literary work

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Tone

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attitude a writer takes towards the subject of a work

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Poetic Forms

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the structure and form of poems

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a group of consecutive lines that forms a structural unit in a poem

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stanza

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Fixed Form

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a kind of template or formula poetry can be composed in

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Free Form

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poetry that does not conform to regular meter or rhyme scheme

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Blank Verse

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poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter

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poetry that expresses personal emotions or feelings

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lyric

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14 line poem usually written in iambic pentameter that has one of two basic structures

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