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| poetry | A kind of rhythmic, compressed language that uses figures of speech and imagery |
| imagery | language that appeals to the senses |
| figure of speech | A word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of another (ex: similes and metaphors) |
| simile | A comparison between two unlike things using like, than, or as |
| metaphor | a comparison between two unlike things that does not use a comparative word |
| personification | a metaphor in which a nonhuman thing is talked about as if it were human |
| rhythm | a musical quality produced by repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables |
| rhyme | The repetition of accented sounds close together in a poem |
| rhyme scheme | The pattern of end rhymes found in a poem |
| alliteration | The repetition of the same consonant sounds close together in a poem |
| assonance | The repetition of the same vowel sounds close together in a poem |
| onomatopoeia | The use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning |
| free verse | poetry that has no meter (rhythm pattern) and no rhyme pattern |
| narrative poem | A poem that tells a story |
| simile | "He is as strong as an ox" is an example of which term? |
| metaphor | "She is my sunshine" is an example of which term? |
| alliteration | "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers" is an example of which term? |
| onomatopoeia | Snap, crackle and pop are examples of which term? |
| personification | "The tree cradled the nest in its arms" is an example of which literary term? |
| lyric poem | a poem that does not tell a story but aims only at expressing a speaker's emotions or thoughts |
| ballad | a type of narrative poem that usually deals with tragic or exciting events; some are songs |
| sonnet | a type of lyric poem with 14 lines; it has a set meter and rhyme |
| haiku | a short lyric poem with 17 syllables; this comes from Japan and often uses images from nature |
| stanza | a group of lines in a poem that form a single unit; like a poetic paragraph |
| couplet | a pair (2) of rhyming lines |
| refrain | a repeating word, phrase, line, or sentence structure |
| tone | the attitude the writer has towards the audience or the topic (serious, humorous, etc.) |
| irony | a contrast or difference between what we expect to happen and what really happens |
| allusion | A reference to a statement, person, place, or event that is known from literature or culture. |
| symbol | something that stands for something else |
