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    This document defines and provides examples of various figurative language techniques such as alliteration, assonance, onomatopoeia, imagery, metaphor, and simile. It also discusses poetic formats including stanzas, verse/lines, couplets, triplets, quatrains, and more. Finally, it outlines different poetic techniques like repetition, rhyme, rhythm, and rhyme schemes as well as common types of poetry like narrative, lyric, ballad, free verse, cinquain, haiku, diamante, limerick, sonnet, shape/concrete, acrostic, and alphabet poems.

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    This document defines and provides examples of various figurative language techniques such as alliteration, assonance, onomatopoeia, imagery, metaphor, and simile. It also discusses poetic formats including stanzas, verse/lines, couplets, triplets, quatrains, and more. Finally, it outlines different poetic techniques like repetition, rhyme, rhythm, and rhyme schemes as well as common types of poetry like narrative, lyric, ballad, free verse, cinquain, haiku, diamante, limerick, sonnet, shape/concrete, acrostic, and alphabet poems.

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    This document defines and provides examples of various figurative language techniques such as alliteration, assonance, onomatopoeia, imagery, metaphor, and simile. It also discusses poetic formats including stanzas, verse/lines, couplets, triplets, quatrains, and more. Finally, it outlines different poetic techniques like repetition, rhyme, rhythm, and rhyme schemes as well as common types of poetry like narrative, lyric, ballad, free verse, cinquain, haiku, diamante, limerick, sonnet, shape/concrete, acrostic, and alphabet poems.

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    FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

    Alliteration: Repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words. Peter Piper picked
    a peck of pickled peppers.
    Assonance: Repeated vowel sounds. The cat sat on the mat.
    Onomatopoeia: Words whose sound suggests its meaning. The bees buzzed.
    Imagery: Creating pictures for the senses (through, e.g., similes or metaphors).
    Fear was his constant companion.
    Metaphor: A figure of speech stating two things are similar. The book was a passport
    to adventure.
    Simile: A comparison using like or as. She floated in like a cloud.
    Hyperbole: An extravagant exaggeration. My backpack weighs a ton!
    Personification: Giving human qualities to ideas and things. Her stomach growled.
    Allusion: A reference to a specific person, place, or thing. She is as pretty as the Mona
    Lisa.
    Symbol: Representation of something complex, general, or abstract. The Statue of
    Liberty symbolizes the democratic ideal.

    FORMAT
    Stanzas: A group of lines arranged together, similar to a paragraph.
    Verse/Line: A group of words together on one line
    Couplet: a two line stanza
    Triplet (Tercet): a three line stanza
    Quatrain: a four line stanza
    Quintet: a five line stanza
    Sestet (Sextet): a six line stanza
    Septet : a seven line stanza
    Octave: an eight line stanza

    POETIC TECHNIQUES
    Repetition: Intentional repeating of the same word or phrase throughout a poem.
    Rhyme: Words sound alike because they share the same ending vowel and consonant
    sounds. Cat, Hat, Bat
    Rhythm: The beat created by the sounds of the words in a poem. This above all to thine
    ownself be true.
    Rhyme Scheme: A pattern of rhyme (usually end rhyme, not always).
    Speaker: The narrator of the poem.

    TYPES OF POETRY
    Narrative: A poem that tells a story.
    Lyric: A short poem that expresses feelings or observations.
    Ballad: A poem that tells a story and can be a song because of its rhyme; often a love
    story.
    Free Verse: Does not have any pattern or rhyme; sounds like someone talking to you.
    Cinquain: A five-line poem with the syllable pattern: 2 4 6 8 2.
    Haiku: A three-line poem with the syllable pattern: 5 7 5.
    Diamante: A seven-line poem in the shape of a diamond with specific rules for each line.
    Limerick: A five-line poem that is usually silly. Lines 1, 2 & 5 rhyme and have the same
    number of syllables and lines 3 & 4 rhyme and have the same number of syllables.
    Sonnet: A fourteen-line poem with a specific rhyme scheme.
    Shape/Concrete: The words are arranged to create a picture that relates to the poem.
    Acrostic: A poem that each line has a letter to form a word, usually the first letter in each
    line.
    Alphabet: A line is written for each letter of the alphabet, usually describing one topic.

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