Haiku
A 17 syllable poem
first line - 5 syllables
second line - 7 syllables
third line - 5 syllable
Usually about nature
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Acrostic
A poem that goes down first letter has a verse that describes poem.
A - animal
N - Nifty
T - Tiny
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Cinquain
Five line poem
Each has a different number of syllables in the pattern 2,4,6,8,2
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Descriptive Poem
A poem that creates a vivid image in readers head
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Free Verse
Lines can be different lenghts
Doesnt have to Rhyme
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Rhymed Verse
A poem that Contains many rhymes
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Narrative
A poem that tells a story
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Couplets
A two line poem that is fun and simple with a rhyming pattern
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Tanka
A japensese poem that has
Line 1 - 5 syllables
Line 2 - 7 syllables
Line 3 - 5 syllables
Line 4 - 7 syllables
Line 5 - 7 syllables, rhymes with line 4
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Diamonte Poem
Shaped like a diamond
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Limerick
Poem with 5 lines
Lines one, two and five rhyme with each other
Lines three and four rhyme together
Rhyme pattern AABBA
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Proverbe
Shortest art form
Vivid imagery to teach a moral lesson
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Concrete Poem
Takes the shape of its subject
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Sennet
A poem with 14 lines
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Quatrain
A rhyming four line poem
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Autobiograpgical Poem
A poem about you
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Alliteration
A sentence with repition of the first word
Ex - Suzzy Stole Sally's Sisters Shoe
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Onomatopoeia
Words that sound like what they mean
ex - There was a tuba in the parade
Umpa Umpa went the tuba in the parade
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Metaphor
The conparison between two unalike things
ex- The road snakes around the mountain
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Simile
The comaprison between two things using like or as.
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I am poem
a 18 line poem.
3 verses
Each verse ends with I am..
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Personification
Giving human qualities to something not human
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Imagery
A poem meant to arouse senses by many details
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Mood - poem
How a poem feels
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Predicate
A word that identifies or tells something about the subject
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Subject
What the sentence is about
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Sound Image
Ex - The soft waves crashed against the shhore like a distant drum
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Adjective
A word that describes a noun
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Noun
A person, Place, Thing or Idea
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Adverb
A word that describes a verb
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Poetry Phrasing
Using Lines Or Stanzas
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Lyric Poem
A poem that could be made into a song
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List Your Five Senses
Taste
Touch
See
Hear
Smell
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Her eyes shone like diamonds
Simile
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Her eyes were diamonds in the sunlight
Metaphor
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The car growled In anger
Personification
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Meter
The way the poem is set up. The shape of it
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Rhythm
How the poem flows and sound right
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Verb
An action word
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Pronoun
Used instead of a noun to avoid repeating the noun
I, You, He, etc
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Conjunction
Connects two words, sentences or phrases together
But, So, And, Because, Or
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Prepostion
Usually come before a noun.
On, In, By, With, Without, Under, etc
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Interjection
Stands alone. Usually follwed with a exclamation point. They express emotion.
OUCH! HURRAH! YEY!
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Article
Used to introduce a noun.
A, An, The
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Complete Subject
Tells who or what the sentance is about
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Complete Predicate
Includes all the words that state the action or condition of the subject
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Plot
A series of linked events
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Setting
Where the novel takes place
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Climax
The place that everything led up to.
Usually the most interesting part
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Protagonist
The person who drivees the story
The good one
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Antagonist
The one who tries to slow down or stop the events in the story.
The bad one.
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Foreshadowing
When an author suggests certain plot developments that may happen later on in the story
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Conflict
A unavoidable problem.
The problem in a story
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Narrator
First Person - Speaks from "I" occasionally as "we".
Second Person - Speaks in "You". Very rare.
Third Person - Speaks as observor
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Allusion
An allusion is a literary device that stimulates ideas, associations, and extra information in the reader's mind with only a word or two.
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Synonym
Words that mean the same thing.
Thin, Skinny,
Neat, Tidy
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Antonyms
Words that are the opposite.
Up, down
Tall, short
Wet, dry
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Homonyms
Words that are spelt differently and mean different things but sound the same.
Sea, see
There, Their, They're
Pear, Pair
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Your
used to indicate Something that belongs to you
"YOUR jacket is on the rack
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You're
You are
"You are right"
"You're right"
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Its
belonging to it
"the book has lost ITS cover"
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It's
It is.
"It is starting to rain"
"It's starting to rain"
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There
At a place, point or matter
She is over THERE
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Their
Belonging to you.
I didnt know THEIR hats were there.
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They're
They are
They are over here
THEY'RE over here
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To
A direction to a certain point
They came TO the house
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Two
A number
TWO of them please
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Too
In addition more
more, than should be
TOO close to that
More of them TOO, please
TOO sick to travel
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Paradox
A statement that may be true or may be false.
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Less
smaller in size
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