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narrative poetry
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poetry that tells a story and has a plot, characters, and setting
example: The Fish |
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epic
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long narrative poem about the feats of gods or heroes
example: The Odyssy by Homer |
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ballad
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songlike narrative that has short stanzas and a refrain
example: I'm Yours |
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dramatic poetry
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tells a story using a character's own thoughts or spoken statements
example: 100 Years by Five For Fighting |
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lyric
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a poem that expresses the feelings of a single peaker. Most common type of poem in modern literature.
example: The Scream |
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haiku
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verse form with 3 unrhymed lines of 5,7,5 syllables
examples: by Basho An old silent pond... A frog jumps into the pond, splash! Silence again. |
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tanka
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verse form with 5unrhymed lines of 5,7,5,7,7 syllables
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free verse
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poems that have neither a set pattern of rhythm nor rhyme
example:The Fish |
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Shakespearean sonnet
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14 line lyric poem with formal patterns of rhyme, rhythm, and line structure. The lines are grouped into 3 quatrains and a couplet. Rhymes abab cdcd efef gg.
example: My misress' eyes are nothing like the sun. |
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villanelle
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19 line form that are grouped into 5 three-line stanzas and a four line stanza. the lines rhyme aba, aba, aba, aba, aba, abaa.
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alliteration
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repetition of a consonant sound at the beginning of nearby words
example: "cloudless climes and starry skies" from she walks in beauty, like the night |
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assonance
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repetition of vowel sounds in nearby stressed syllables
example: "pAck your bAgs" line from song, So Good |
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consonance
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repetition of consonant sounds in nearby stressed syllables with different vowel sounds
example:"girL teLL me how you feeL" from song, So Good |
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hyperbole
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exaggeration for effect
example: "as I drown in my regrets" from song, Words I Never Said |
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imagery
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descriptive language that creates vivid impressions
example: the whole poem, my mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun |
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metaphor
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one thing is spoken about as if it were something else
example: "how could you be so Dr. Evil?" from song, Heartless |
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onomatopoeia
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use of words to imitate the actual sound
example: tick tock |
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personification
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object, animal, or idea is spoken of as if it were human
example:"Fear is such a weak emotion, that's why I despise it" from song, Words I Never Said |
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simile
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comparison of unlike things using words "like" or "as"
example:"How could you be so cold as the winter wind when it breeze" from song, Heartless |
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rhyme scheme
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patterns of rhyme at the ends of lines
example: the rhyme scheme in my mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun is abab cdcd efef gg |
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rhythm
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pattern created by sressed and ustressed syllables of words in sequence
example: the rhyhtm in shall I compare thee to a summer's day has an iambic pentameter rhythm |
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allusion
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reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art
example: the song "If Today Was Your Last Day" hints at Robert Frost's poem with the line "take the path less traveled" |