The way a poem is laid out on the page, how it "looks"
Form
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Free Verse
Poems with no recognizable patterns or rules (no rhyming, etc)
15
Rhythm
the musical quality produced by the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables.
"the beat of the poem"
15
a poetic device which is used at the end of a line and the beginning of the next line in a poem. Also, it can be described as a point where a line is divided into two halves at the end of a line
line break
15
poems that follow strict rules about lines, stanzas, rhythm and rhyme
traditional verse
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premeasured patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables.
gives poetry a rhythmical and melodious sound
meter
15
a literary device defined as having two successive rhyming lines in verse and having the same meter to form a complete thought.
marked by a usual rhythm, rhyme scheme
couplets
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a stanza of four lines, especially one having alternate rhymes
quatrains
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This poem is an example of a......
I was so small/
But got a treat/
I caught a ball/
In my seat
Quatrain Poem
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A division of four or more lines having a fixed length, meter or rhyming scheme
stanza
15
It's the "money" of a song or poem. -a verse, a set, or a group of lines that appears at the end of the stanza, or appears where a poem or song divides into different sections
refrain or chorus
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Hey Diddle, Diddle/
The Cat and the Fiddle
this is an example of a ____________
couplet
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a repetition of similar sounding words occurring at the end of lines in poems or songs
rhyme
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giving human characteristics to non-human things
personification
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The tree whispered in the wind is an example of__________.
personification
25
the repetition of initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables
