free verse poetry - breaks from the standard patterns of rhyme and rhythm found in many other forms of poetry , line - row of words, stanza - group of lines, figurative language - conveys meaning in powerful ways, metaphor in poetry - creates imaginative comparisons that shows how the poem's speaker feels and perceives the world, narrative poetry - tells a story, lyrical poetry - similar to songs in in rhythm or subject matter, ode - a lyric poem that is written to a particular subject, ballad - tells a story in short stanzas, often for singing, epic - long poem about a significant event, usually focused on a hero, sonnet - 14-line poem with 10 syllables of iambic pentameter per line, iambic pentameter - rhythmic pattern in poetry that consists of ten syllables per line, with alternating stressed and unstressed syllables, exposition - author sets the scene and explains what's going on, rising action - a series of crises that lead to the story's climax, climax - the most exciting moment of a story, where both people and events change, falling action - the events that follow the climax in a story, resolution - the conclusion of a story, in which all the tensions of the plot are resolved, setting - the surroundings and time in which the events of a story take place, inference - a conclusion the reader draws based on evidence and reason, prose - ordinary writing that follows grammatical rules and is organized into sentences and paragraphs and lacks the hallmarks of poetry and song,

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