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    Vocabulary
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  • The speed in which a speaker delivers words is called...
    rate
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  • A light, humorous nonsensical poem is known as...
    limerick
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  • Poetry that does not following any regular pattern is called...
    free verse
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  • This type of figurative language is the repetition of initial consonant sounds....
    alliteration
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  • This type of figurative language is an extreme exaggeration...
    hyperbole
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  • The emphasis a speaker places on words through change in pitch or volume
    inflection
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  • A strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound
    rhythm
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  • The correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words
    rhyme
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  • The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in spoken or written language
    meter
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  • Poet famous for writing Limericks
    Edward Lear
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  • A form of poetry that celebrates a person, place, or idea
    ode
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  • Poetry with four-line stanzas in which the second and fourth lines of each stanza inspire the first and third lines of the next stanza.
    pantoum
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