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Lyric Poetry
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Usually brief and intense, that expresses a poet's subjective response to the world. The romantic poets, particularly Keats, often wrote lyrics about love, death, and nature.
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Epic Poetry
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A long narrative poem, such as the Illiad or the Aeneid, recounting the adventures of heroes on whose actions and fate of a nation or race depends. Frequently the gods or other supernatural beings take active interest in the events.
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Closed form poetry
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Type of poetic structure that has a recongnizable rhyme scheme, meter, or stanzaic pattern; also called fixed form.
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Open form poetry
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Form of poetry, that makes use of varying line lengths, abandoning stanzaic divisions, breaking lines in unexpected places, and even dispensing with any pretense of formal structure.
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Denotation
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Dictionary meaning of a word; its explicit, literal meaning.
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Connotation
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Meaning that a word suggest beyond its literal, dictionary meaning; its emotional associations, judgements, or opinions. Connotations can be positive, neutral, or negative.
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Rhyme
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Repetition of concluding sounds in different words, often intentionally used othe ends of poetic lines.
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Rhythm
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Regular recurrence of sounds in a poem
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Meter
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Regular stressed and unstressed syllables
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Stress
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Accent or emphasis, either strong or weak, given to each syllable in a piece of writing, as detrmined by conventional pronounciation and intended emphasis.
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Persona
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Narrator or speaker of a poem or story; in Greek tragedy, a persona was a mask worn by a character.
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Tone
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Attitude of the speaker or author of a work toward the subject itself or the audience, as determined by the word choice and arrangement or the piece.
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Imagery
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Words and phrases that describe the concrete experience of the five senses, most often sight.
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Alliteration
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Repetition of consonate sounds in a series of words
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Allusion
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Reference, often to literature, history, mythology, or the Bible, that is unacknowlaged in the text but that the author expects a reader to recognize.
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