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| poetry | A kind of rhythmic, compressed language that uses figures of speech and imagery |
| speaker | the narrator of a poem; not to be confused with the poet |
| 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 |
| meter | a rhythm pattern |
| rhyme | The repetition of accented sounds close together in a poem |
| end rhyme | rhyming words found at the end of different poetic lines |
| internal rhyme | rhyming words found within the same poetic line |
| rhyme scheme | The pattern of end rhymes found in a poem |
| slant (approximate) rhyme | Two words that are alike in sound but that don't rhyme exactly |
| 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 |
| blank verse | poetry written with a definite rhythm pattern but no rhyme pattern |
| 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? |
| internal rhyme | "I'm having a time thinking of a rhyme" is an example of which rhyming pattern? |
| 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? |
| repetition | repeated use of a sound, word, phrase, clause or sentence |
| literal language | the opposite of figurative language-says exactly what is meant |
| hyperbole | deliberate over statement |
| symbol | anything that represents something else other than its self |
| allusion | a reference to a well known person, event, place or literary work |
| idiom | an expression that has meaning beyond the some of its words ex: You are driving me up the wall. |
| dialect | a form of English spoken by a specific group of people |
