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Free Verse

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Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme.

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Figurative Language

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Language employing figures of speech; language that cannot be taken literally or only literally.

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Quatrain

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A four-line stanza; a four-line division of a sonnet marked off by its rhyme scheme.

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Connotation

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The associations called up by a word that goes beyond its dictionary meaning.

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Stanza

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A group of lines whose metrical pattern (and usually its rhyme scheme) is repeated throughout a poem.

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Sonnet

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A 14-line poem, typically written in iambic pentameter, with various rhyme schemes.

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Ballad

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A form of verse, often a narrative set to music, typically consisting of simple stanzas and a refrain.

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Meter

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The rhythmic structure of verses, determined by the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.

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Denotation

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The literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests.

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Couplet

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A pair of successive lines of verse, typically rhyming and having the same meter.