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| 6166131541 | 1st Person Point of View | the speaker is a character in the story or poem and tells it from his/her perspective | 0 | |
| 6166131542 | 3rd Person Limited Point of View | the speaker is not part of the story, but tells about the other characters through the limited perceptions of one other person | 1 | |
| 6166131543 | 3rd Person Omniscient Point of View | the speaker is not part of the story, but is able to "know" and describe what all the characters are thinking | 2 | |
| 6166131544 | Verse | one single line of a poem arranged in a metrical pattern | 3 | |
| 6166131545 | Stanza | a division of a poem created by arranging the lines into a unit, often repeated in the same pattern of meter and rhyme throughout the poem | 4 | |
| 6166131546 | Enjambment | the continuation of logical sense-and therefore the grammatical construction-beyond the end of a line of poetry. This is sometimes done with the title, which in effect becomes the first line of the poem. | 5 | |
| 6166131547 | Blank Verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter | 6 | |
| 6166131548 | Free Verse | lines with no prescribed pattern or structure | 7 | |
| 6166131549 | Couplet | a pair of lines, usually rhymed; this is the shortest stanza | 8 | |
| 6166131550 | Heroic Couplet | a pair of rhymed lines in iambic pentameter; they express a complete thought, with the second line reinforcing the first...closed/end-stopped | 9 | |
| 6166131551 | Quatrain | a four-line stanza, or grouping of four lines of verse | 10 | |
| 6166131552 | Ballad | a narrative poem written as a series of quatrains in which lines of iambic tetrameter alternate with iambic trimeter | 11 | |
| 6166131553 | Haiku | a Japanese form of poetry consisting of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables | 12 | |
| 6166131554 | Limerick | a light or humorous form of five chiefly anapestic verses | 13 | |
| 6166131555 | Lyric | a brief subjective poem marked by imagination, melody, and emotion | 14 | |
| 6166131556 | Narrative Poetry | a nondramatic poem which tells a story or present a narrative, wether simple or complex, long or short | 15 | |
| 6166131557 | Sonnet | a fourteen line poem in iambic pentameter with a prescribed rhyme scheme; its subject was traditionally love | 16 | |
| 6166131558 | Concrete Poetry | also known as pattern poetry, these are poems that are printed on the page so that they form a recognizable outline related to the subject, thus conveying the meaning of the words | 17 | |
| 6166131559 | Ode | any of several stanzaic forms, which intricate rhyme schemes and irregular number of lines, always written in a style marked by a rich, intense expression of an elevated thought praising a person or object | 18 | |
| 6166135484 | Elegy | also called a DIRGE, a poem of mourning and meditation...usually about the death of a person but occasionally about other losses (love, strength, youth, etc.) | 19 | |
| 6166142553 | Villanelle | a nineteen-line poem with five three-line stanzas and a concluding quatrain; usually light in tone...based on only two rhymes | 20 | |
| 6166149575 | Dramatic Monologue | a poem spoken by ONE person to a listener who may influence the speaker but who says nothing | 21 | |
| 6166178290 | Caesura | an internal pause within a line of poetry usually indicated by a period, semicolon, dash, or other punctuation mark | 22 | |
| 6166190781 | Italian/Petrarchan Sonnet | a sonnet divided into two discrete units--the octave (abba abba) and the sestet (cd cd cd OR cde cde)--with a VOLTA between the two | 23 | |
| 6166204267 | Shakespearean/English Sonnet | a sonnet divided into three quatrains (abab cdcd efef) and a climactic couplet (gg) with a VOLTA between the last quatrain and the couplet | 24 | |
| 6166216102 | Volta | a turning point in a poem | 25 |
