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  • Long lyric poems written to celebrate a famous person or lofty idea.
    Odes
  • Words with sounds that imitate or suggest their meaning.
    Onomatopoeia
  • The repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables and provides a beat.
    Rhythm
  • The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of a word
    Alliteration
  • Words or phrases that describe one thing in terms of another and are not meant to be understood literally.
    Figures of Speech
  • Language that appeals to our senses.
    Imagery
  • Something that has meaning in itself and also stands for something else.
    Symbols
  • Sentence patterns that repeat.
    Repetition
  • The purpose of this poem is to tell a story.
    Narrative Poem
  • This poem tells a story about love, betrayal, or death in a songlike form
    Ballad
  • Compares two unlike things using words such as like, as, than, and resembles.
    Similies
  • The repetition of vowel sounds.
    Assonance
  • Makes a comparison without using a connecting word.
    Metaphor
  • Poems written to express the personal thoughts and feelings of a speaker.
    Lyric Poems
  • A long narrative poem about the deeds of a great hero.
    Epics
  • A poem that mourns someone who has died.
    Elegy
  • A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
    Meter
  • Two rhyming lines that are consecutive.
    Couplet
  • Poem that is not written in meter or does not have a regular rhyme scheme.
    Free Verse
  • Describing a nonhuman or inanimate object as if it had human qualities.
    Personification
  • The chiming effect of this adds to the music of a poem.
    Rhyme
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