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Poetry Terms Know these words!
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1. Alliteration Repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of several words of a line of poetry or a sentence
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2. Allusion Reference to something the reader more than likely is familiar with, such as a person, place or event from history or literature
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3. Exaggeration Obvious stretching of the truth
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4. Figurative Language The tools that a poet uses to create a special effect or feeling. It includes, metaphor, simile, alliteration, personification, and onomatopoeia.
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5. Free Verse Poetry written without a regular rhyme scheme, meter, or form
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6. Idiom A common phrase made up of words that can’t be understood by their literal or ordinary meanings
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7. Imagery Language that appeals to the five senses-touch, taste, smell, sight, and hearing
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8. Lyric Poem Short poem that directly expresses the poet’s thoughts and emotions in a musical way
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9. Metaphor A direct comparison between two unlike things. NOT using the words like or as
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10. Mood The feeling created by a poem or story for the reader. Words, phrases, repetition, rhyme, and exaggeration all work together to create mood
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11. Narrative Poem A poem that tells a story and uses many of the same elements found in a story
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12. Onomatopoeia The use of words that sound like they describe
EX: zing, ping, whir, poof, clank, screech, zip, whack, etc.
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13. Personification A type of figurative language that gives an animal, object, or idea human qualities, such as the ability to hear, think, feel, talk, and make decisions
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14. Repetition To repeat something; sound, word, phrase, or sentence more than once.
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15. Rhyme The repetition of similar sounds. End rhyme is the repetition of similar sounds at the end of lines of poetry. Internal rhyme happens within a line when two words have similar sounds.
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16. Rhyme Scheme Repeated regular pattern of rhymes usually found at the end of poems.
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17. Rhythm The musical quality created by a pattern of beats or a series of stressed and unstressed syllables.
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18. Simile Comparison between two things using like or as
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19. Stanza A group of lines in a poem set off by blank lines. It usually develops as one idea
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20. Symbol Something that stands for something else.
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21. Tone The attitude the writer takes toward the audience, subject, or characters
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22. Voice Or speaker is the character or perspective that is taken by the writer or poet, often NOT identified by name
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