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- 2. Lyric is a collection of verses and choruses, making up a complete song, or a short and non-narrative poem.
- 4. quatrain is a verse with four lines, or even a full poem containing four lines, having an independent and separate theme.
- 6. an epic is a long narrative poem, which is usually related to heroic deeds of a person of an unusual courage and unparalleled bravery.
- 7. It can be defined as the use of words and phrases that are distinguished as having a wide range of noteworthy melody or loveliness in the sounds they create.
- 11. a literary device that repeats the same words or phrases a few times to make an idea clearer and more memorable
- 14. polite, indirect expressions which replace words and phrases considered harsh and impolite or which suggest something unpleasant
- 16. imitation of a writer, artist, subject, or genre in such a way as to make fun of or comment on the original work.
- 19. the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
- 21. when two contradictory words are together in one phrase
- 22. A figure of speech that makes a comparison, showing similarities between two different things.
- 23. term can also be used to refer to a stanza or other parts of poetry.
- 24. a foot containing unaccented and short syllables, followed by a long and accented syllable in a single line of a poem (unstressed/stressed syllables).
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- 1. Scheme- the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line in a song or poem
- 3. Consonance refers to repetitive sounds produced by consonants within a sentence or phrase.
- 5. a rhetorical device that is a memorable, brief, interesting, and surprising satirical statement.
- 8. Sonnet- a poem with three quatrains, using a rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef, followed by an ending couplet of two lines with a rhyme scheme of gg.
- 9. a grouped set of lines within a poem, usually set off from other stanzas by a blank line or indentation.
- 10. An attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience.
- 12. A form of figurative language in which something that is not human is given human characteristics.
- 13. a kind of poem, usually praising something. .
- 15. when a speaker directly addresses someone or something that isn't present in the poem.
- 17. Rhyme- rhyme that occurs within a single line of verse, or between internal phrases across multiple lines.
- 18. rhythm is expressed through stressed and unstressed syllables.
- 20. used for language and description that appeals to our five senses. When a writer attempts to describe something so that it appeals to our sense of smell, sight, taste, touch, or hearing