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CyberEnglish9 Poetry Terms    

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1.                   imagery (five kinds)

2.                   speaker

3.                   structure

4.                   syllable

5.                   stanza

6.                   metaphor

7.                   simile

8.                   personification

9.                   meter

10.                rhythm

11.                iamb

12.                iambic pentameter

13.                foot

14.                scansion

15.                free verse

17.                narrative poem

18.                connotation

19.                diction

20.                couplets

21.                rhyme

22.                rhyme scheme

23.                exact rhymes

24.                approximate/slant rhymes

25.                end rhyme

26.                internal rhyme

27.                alliteration

28.                onomatopoeia

29.                tone

30.                allusion

31.                irony

32.                ballad

33.                lyric poem

34.                haiku