Literary Devices and Poetry

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What is a tercet?

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A 3 line stanza.

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What is a sonnet?

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A 14 line poem.

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What is a stanza?

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A group of lines in a poem.

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What is an octet?

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An 8 line stanza.

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What is a couplet?

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A 2 line stanza featuring an end rhyme.

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What is a quatrain?

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A 4 line stanza.

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What is rhyme?

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The repetition of similar sounds in two or more words.

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What is a metaphor?

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A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as'.

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What is personification?

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Attributing human characteristics to non-human things.

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What is alliteration?

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The repetition of the same initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words.