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Poetry terms 2 Ballad Rhyme End Rhyme Internal Rhyme Assonance Consonance* Pun* Theme Personification Idiom* Meter* Foot* Haiku Limerick* Figurative Language Rhythm

Limerick—a kind of humorous verse of five lines, in which the first, second, and fifth lines rhyme with each other, and the third and fourth lines, which are shorter, form a rhymed couplet. Pun—a joke or type of wordplay in which similar senses or sounds of two words or phrases, or different senses of the same word, are deliberately confused. Idiom—a set expression of two or more words that means something other than the literal meanings of its individual words. Meter—involves the exact arrangements of syllables into repeated patterns called feet within a line. Foot—refers to two or more syllables that together make up the smallest unit of rhythm in a poem. For example, an Iamb is a foot that has two syllables, one unstressed followed by one stressed. An Anapest has three syllables, two unstressed followed by one stressed. Consonance--The repetition of consonant sounds near one another in a piece of literature.