Essay About Repetition Of Initial Consonant Sounds And Concrete Poem

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Literary Terms for Poetry
Alliteration: The repetition of initial consonant sounds
Assonance: The repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants in two or more stressed syllables
Blank Verse: Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter lines
Concrete Poem: A poem with a shape that suggests its subject
Consonance: the repetition in two or more words of final consonants in stressed syllables
Couplet: A pair of rhyming lines usually of the same length and meter
Dramatic Poetry: Poetry that involves the techniques of drama
Epic: A long narrative poem about the deed of gods and heroes
Extended Metaphor: A subject is spoken or written of as though it were something else
Free Verse: Poetry not written in a regular rhythmical pattern or meter
Haiku: Japanese poem written in 5-7-5 needs to convey a single vivid emotion by means of images from nature
Lyric Poem: A highly musical verse that expresses the observations of the writer
Mood: The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage. The mood is often suggested by descriptive details
Onomatopoeia: The use of words that imitate sounds
Parody: A work done in imitation of another, usually in order to mock it, but sometimes just in fun
Personification: A type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics.
Pun: A play on words based on different meanings of words that sound alike
Refrain: A repeated line or group of lines in a poem or song
Repetition: The use, more than once, of any element of language- a sound, a word, a phrase, a clause, or a sentence
Rhyme: The repetition of sounds at the ends of words- internal