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16 Cards in this Set
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Poetry |
An art form in which feelings and ideas are expressed by words |
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Line |
Phrase of words |
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Stanza |
One line of the poem |
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Rhythm |
Musical sound of stressed/unstressed syllables |
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Rhyme scheme |
The The patterns of rhymes found in the stanza |
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Free verse |
No set length, no set rhythm, no rhyming pattern, conveys feeling and ideas |
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Narrative |
Can rhyme tells a story has characters setting conflict and a plot |
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Humorous |
Can rhyme can be silly and ridiculous meant to be funny (limerick) |
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Lyrical |
Can rhyme expresses strong feeling like a song |
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Acrostic |
Poem in which the first letters of each line spell out a word or phrase |
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Diamante |
Unrhymed seven lined poem shows the contrast between two things |
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Limerick |
Five lined poem that follows AAABBA rhyming scheme usually humorous |
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Shape |
Describes the topic of the poem but also takes the form of the topic |
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Haiku |
Consists of three lines |
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Tanka |
Written to show strong feeling or emotion |
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Cinquain |
A five line poem the first and last lines have only two syllables often tells a story |