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Poetry Terms LCS Test

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Alliteration
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acrostic
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Poem
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Rhyme
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Limerick
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Poet
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Couplet
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Meter
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Ballad
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Close rhyme
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Epic
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Foot
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Lamb
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Line
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The repetition of the same sounds at the beginning of words
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A basic structural component of a poem
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A piece of writing that partakes of the nature of both speech and song that is nearly rhythmical usually metaphorical and often exhibit such formal element as meter rhyme and stanzaic structure
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Two lines of verse usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme that form a unit
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A metrical foot consisting of one short or unstressed syllable followed by one long or stressed syllable
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Two rhyming words that are consecutive or very close together in a phrase or line
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A long poem typically one derives from ancient oral tradition narrating the deeds and Adventures of heroic or legendary figures for the history of a Nation
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A group of two or three syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm
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the regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that make up a line of poetry and gives rhythm and regularity to a poem
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a poem which certain letters in each line form word.
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The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named
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A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas
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A humorous frequently bawdy verse of 3 long and two short lines rhyming aabba
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correspondence of sound between words o the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry
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a person who writes poems
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a phrase or verse recurring at intervals in a song or poem, especially at the end of each stanza, chorus
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a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem, verse
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a literary device that repeats the same words or phrases a few times to make an idea clearer
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The repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in non rhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible
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A Japanese poem of Seventeen syllables in three lines of five seven and five traditionally evoking images of the natural world
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Expressing the writers and motions usually briefly and in stanzas or recognized forms
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A poem of serious reflection typically a lament for the Dead
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Bars without rhyme especially that which uses iambic pentameter
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A rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next
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writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, tyically having a rhyme

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