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Ambiguity
Where a word or phrase has two or more possible meanings.
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Ballad
A form of poetry that tells a story and often sounds quite musical.
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Blank verse
Poetry that doesn't rhyme, but has a regular rhythm.
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Caesura
A pause in a line.
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Colloquial
Sounding like everyday spoken language.
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Consonance
When words have the same consonant sounds but different vowel sounds.
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Dialet
A variation of a language coming from different places where people may phrase things differently.
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Free verse.
Poetry that doesn't rhyme, and has no regular rhythm.
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Iambic pentameter
Poetry with a metre of ten syllables - five of them stressed, and five unstressed. The stress falls on every second syllable.
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Iambic tetrameter
Similar to 'imabic pentameter' but with a metre of eight syllables, four stressed and four unstressed.
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Internal rhyme
When a word in the middle of a line rhymes with the last word of the line.
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Metre
The arrangement of syllables to create rhythm in a line of poetry.
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Monologue
One person speaking for a long period of time.
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Oxymoron
A phrase which appears to contradict itself, because the words have meanings that don't seem to fit together.
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Persona
A fictional character or identity adopted by a poet.
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Sonnet
A form of poem with only 14 lines, and usually following a clear rhyme pattern, and are usually about love.
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A form of poetry that tells a story and often sounds quite musical.

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Ballad

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Poetry that doesn't rhyme, but has a regular rhythm.

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A pause in a line.

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Sounding like everyday spoken language.

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