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| 5305853234 | poetic device | a device used in poetry to manipulate the sound of words, sentences or lines. | 0 | |
| 5305855746 | alliteration | the repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of words. "Sally sells sea shells by the sea shore" | 1 | |
| 5305857591 | assonance | the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds. "From the molten-golden notes" | 2 | |
| 5305857963 | consonance | the repetition of the same consonant sound at the end of words or within words. "Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door" | 3 | |
| 5305858583 | onomatopoeia | The use of a word which imitates or suggests the sound that the thing makes. Snap, rustle, boom, murmur | 4 | |
| 5305858849 | internal rhyme | When a line of poetry contains a rhyme within a single line. "To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!" | 5 | |
| 5305859333 | slant rhyme | When a poet creates a rhyme, but the two words do not rhyme exactly - they are merely similar. "I sat upon a stone, / And found my life has gone." | 6 | |
| 5305859651 | end rhyme | When the last word of two different lines of poetry rhyme. "Roses are red, violets are blue, / Sugar is sweet, and so are you." | 7 | |
| 5305859985 | rhyme scheme | The pattern of a poem's end rhymes. For example, the following lines have a rhyme scheme of a b a b: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? a Thou art more lovely and more temperate. b Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May. a And summer's lease hath all too short a date. b | 8 | |
| 5305860436 | stressed and unstressed syllables | in every word of more than one syllable | 9 | |
| 5305860909 | meter | a regular pattern to the syllables in lines of poetry | 10 | |
| 5305861293 | free verse | poetry that doesn't have much meter or rhyme | 11 | |
| 5305861729 | 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?" | 12 | |
| 5305862288 | sonnet | a 14-line poem written in iambic pentameter | 13 |
