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| 7616024143 | Sonnet | A 14 line poem written in iambic pentameter. Usually divided into three quatrains and a couplet. | 0 | |
| 7616027306 | Iambic Pentameter | Poetry that is written in lines of 10 syllables, alternating stressed and unstressed syllables. "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" | 1 | |
| 7616029322 | Free Verse | Poetry that doesn't have much meter or rhyme. | 2 | |
| 7616032240 | Meter | A regular pattern to the syllables in lines of poetry. | 3 | |
| 7616037966 | Stressed and unstressed syllables | In every word of more than one syllable, one of the syllables is stressed, or said with more force than the other syllable(s). In the name "Nathan," the first syllable is stressed. In the word "unhappiness," the second of the four syllables is stressed. | 4 | |
| 7616045669 | Rhyme Scheme | The pattern of a poem's end rhymes. | 5 | |
| 7616057579 | End Rhyme | When the last word of two different lines of poetry rhyme. | 6 | |
| 7616060978 | Slant Rhyme | When a poet creates a rhyme, but the two words do not rhyme exactly - they are merely similar. | 7 | |
| 7616064488 | Internal rhyme | When a line of poetry contains a rhyme within a single line. | 8 | |
| 7616074762 | Onomatopoeia | The use of a word which imitates or suggests the sound that the thing makes. | 9 | |
| 7616077927 | Consonance | The repetition of the same consonant sound at the end of words or within words. | 10 | |
| 7616081864 | Assonance | The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds. | 11 | |
| 7616083534 | Alliteration | The repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of words. | 12 |
