Elements of Poetry

Alex (United States of America)
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  1. limerick
    a humorous rhymed verse form of five lines
  2. simile
    a figure of speech expressing a resemblance between things
  3. metaphor
    a figure of speech that suggests a non-literal similarity
  4. personification
    attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas
  5. alliteration
    use of the same consonant at the beginning of each word
  6. repetition
    the act of doing or performing again
  7. assonance
    the repetition of similar vowels in successive words
  8. consonance
    a harmonious state of things and of their properties
  9. onomatopoeia
    using words that imitate the sound they denote
  10. rhyme
    correspondence in the final sounds of two or more lines
  11. rhythm
    an interval during which a recurring sequence occurs
  12. stanza
    a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem
  13. meter
    a basic unit of length (approximately 1.094 yards)
  14. sonnet
    a verse form of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme
  15. ode
    a lyric poem with complex stanza forms
  16. ballad
    a narrative poem of popular origin
  17. epic
    a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds
  18. haiku
    an epigrammatic Japanese verse form of three short lines
Created on Tue Dec 17 11:58:45 EST 2013

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