Glossary of Poetic Terms

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'Allegory (allegorical)'

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'Alliteration (alliterative)'

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'Anthropomorphism (anthropomorphic)'

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'Assonance'

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'Autobiography (autobiographical)'

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'Biography (biographical)'

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'Blank Verse'

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'Caesura'

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'Coinage (to coin)'

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'Consonate'

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'Couplet (rhyming couplet)'

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'Decasyllabic Rhythm'

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'Dramatic Monologue'

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'Elegy'

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'Enjambment'

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'Feminine Rhyme'

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'Free Verse'

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'Half-rhyme'

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'Hyperbole'

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'Iambic Pentameter'

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'Imagery (visual, aural, olfactory, sensory & tactile)'

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'Internal Rhyme'

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'Juxtaposition'

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'Lament'

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'Masculine Rhyme'

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'Metaphor'

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'Meter'

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'Monosyllabic'

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'Quatrain'

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'Simile'

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'Sibilance'