Index Cards 61-70

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Narrative Poetry

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Tells a story, can rhyme, has a plot, characters, setting, like a short story in poetry form.

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Free Verse

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No rules or patterns, no rhyming, but can, free to do what you want.

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Ballad

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Tells a story, has a rhyme scheme, usually set to music.

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Haiku

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Traditional form of Japanese poetry, 3 lines with specific syllable pattern (5-7-5), about nature.

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Limerick

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Originally from Ireland, 5 lines, lines 1, 2, and 5 rhyme, lines 3 & 4 rhyme, funny.

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Imagery

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Colorful and descriptive language, appeals to five senses, paints a picture.

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Figurative Language

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The use of words in an unusual or imaginative way, non-literal way, includes metaphors, similes, personification, idiom, hyperbole, allusions.

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Metaphor

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A direct comparison of two unlike things, does not use like or as.

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Simile

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Compares two unlike things using like or as.

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Alliteration

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Repetition of beginning consonant sounds, mainly used in poetry.