Unit 3: Craft and Structure Vocabulary

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  1. poetry
    literature in metrical form
  2. line
    a row of text written across a page or computer screen
  3. stanza
    a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem
  4. refrain
    part of a song or poem that recurs at regular intervals
  5. repetition
    the continued use of the same word or word pattern
  6. variation
    something a little different from others of the same type
  7. rhythm
    alternation of stressed and unstressed elements in speech
  8. meter
    a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in verse
  9. foot
    a group of syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm
  10. rhyme
    correspondence in the final sounds of two or more lines
  11. alliteration
    use of the same consonant at the beginning of each word
  12. onomatopoeia
    using words that imitate the sound they denote
  13. poetic
    of or relating to verse, or literature in metrical form
  14. form
    an arrangement of the elements in a composition or discourse
  15. structure
    the complex composition of knowledge as elements
  16. denotation
    the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression
  17. connotation
    an idea that is implied or suggested
  18. imagery
    the use of vivid sensory language in literature
  19. figurative
    not literal
  20. simile
    a figure of speech expressing a resemblance between things
  21. metaphor
    a figure of speech that suggests a non-literal similarity
  22. personification
    attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas
  23. narrative
    an account that tells the particulars of an act or event
  24. haiku
    an epigrammatic Japanese verse form of three short lines
  25. free verse
    poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter
  26. lyric
    a short poem of songlike quality
  27. ballad
    a narrative poem of popular origin
  28. concrete
    capable of being perceived by the senses
  29. limerick
    a humorous rhymed verse form of five lines
Created on Fri Feb 05 12:39:51 EST 2021 (updated Fri Feb 12 14:34:44 EST 2021)

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