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Poetic Language Terms and Techniques
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Alliteration When a number of words are close together and all begin with the same consonant sound. Squawking seagulls swoop on sunbathers.
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Onomatopoeia a word which imitates the natural sounds of a thing.
The buzzing bee flew away.
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Rhyme Scheme The pattern of end rhymes in a poem, written out as letters, such as AABB or ABAB. My cat is nice. My cat likes mice. My cat is fat. I like my cat. A A B B My cat is nice. My cat is fat. My cat likes mice. I like my cat. A B A B
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Repetition repeats the same words or phrases a few times to make an idea clearer. Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to turn…
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Metaphor Comparison between two things that are usually opposites but have some characteristics common between them. The assignment was a breeze. (This implies that the assignment was not difficult.)
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Simile Compares two or more objects using “like” or “as”.
The water well was as dry as a bone.
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Hyperbole an exaggeration of ideas to emphasize a point.
Your suitcase weighs a ton! It probably does not really weigh a TON, but it might be really heavy!
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Personification a figure of speech in which a thing, an idea or an animal is given human attributes. The wind whispered through dry grass. The flowers danced in the gentle breeze.
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Stanza A group of lines in a poem, separated by space from other stanzas, much like a paragraph As I was walking a ribbon of highway I saw above me an endless skyway I saw below me a golden valley This land was made for you and me.
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