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| inference | a logical guess based on the information that is known. |
| analogy | a similarity between like features of two things on which a comparison may be based. |
| description | writing that helps a reader picture the scenes, events and characters. |
| imagery | words or phrases that are used to appeal to the five senses. |
| sensory detail | details that make reference to sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch. |
| allegory | a text, painting , or play that uses aymbolic figuresor objects to make a general statement about people or life. |
| symbolism | something that represents something else. Example, the $ sign or the @ sign |
| scope | aim or purpopse for writing |
| genre | a term used to identify categories of literature. There are four major types: nonfiction, fiction, drama, and poetry |
| subgenre | more specific categories which in each of the main genres, fiction, nonfiction, drama, and poetry |
| poetry | the most compact form of literature |
| ballad | a poem with a very musical rhyrme and rhythm pattern that usually tells a single event dealng with love, tragedy, or heroism |
| concrete | a poem in which words are arranged to create an image of what the poem is about |
| epic | a poem that tells a long story about a hero, often to illistrate the ideals of the culture in which it is written |
| haiku | a poem that consists of three lines in which the numbers of syllables allternates in a pattern of 5-7-5; usually describe the poet's feelingx about nature |
| limerick | a comical poem with first, second, and fifth lines rhyming and shorter third and fourth lines rhyming; often ends with a surprising twist. |
| lyric | a short musical kind of poetry that deals with emotions |
| perfect rhyme | a set of words that sound exactly alike, like "love" and "dove." These can make the reader feel calm and part of a predictable word |
| imperfect rhyme | a set of words that sound nearly the same, like "calendar" and "ladder." These words can surprise the reader by making unexpected connections between words |
| rhyme scheme | rhyming pattern, of a poem is represented by letters. The first line is usually represented by an "a." The first that doesn't rhyme with an "a" line is represented with a "b." |
| stanza | sometimes in poetry, the lines are written into groups |
| narrative | poetry that tells a story |
| sonnet | a poem of 14 lines often with ten syllables each, and various rhyme schemes |
| speaker | the voice or the narrator of the poem; the speaker is not necessarily the poet |
| rhyme | repetition of identical sounds |
| line break | a poet's perposeful choice of where to end one line and begin the next, allowing a poet to play with sound and meaning |
| rhythm | the beat of a poem |
| lines | poetry is written lines which may or may not be sentences |
| alliteration | the repitition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words |
| onomatopoeia | the use of words that imitate their meaning or sound |
| allusion | when the author brings up ideas outside the text, such as another work of literatue or real-life event |
| figurative language | when writers choose words and phrases that help the reader to picture ordinary things in new ways |
| hyperbole | an intentional exaggeration |
| simile | a comparison that uses like or as |
| metaphor | a comprison of two unlike things that does not use like or as |
| personificaton | giving human qualities to unanimate objects |
| idioms | a phrase or expression whose meaning cannot be understood using the ordinary meanings of the words in it. for example: "hold your horses." |
| free verse | poems that do not have regular rythm and sound more like conversation |
| repetition | to repeat sound, words, or phrases or whole lines in a poem or story |
