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| Poetry | Form a literature that uses rhythmic qualities od language. |
| Connotation | An idea or feeling that s word invokes. |
| Figurative | Nonliteral |
| Form | A form of poetry or poetic form is a style or manner in which a poem is written. |
| Line | A basic structural component of a poem. |
| Verse | A line of writing arranged in a metrical pattern a line of poetry. |
| Stanza | One or more lines that make up the basic units of a poem separated from each other by spacing. |
| Couplet | Rhyming stanzas made up of two lines. |
| Quatrain | A stanza or poem consisting of four lines. |
| Rhyme | A rhyme is a repetition of idenitiical or similar sounds in two or more different words and is most often used in poetry. |
| Rhyme Scheme | A rhyme is the pattern of rhyming lines in lyrics for music. |
| Repetition | The act of doing or performing again. |
| Meter | The measured arrangement of words in poetry, as by accentual rhythm, syllabic quantity, or the number of syllables in a line. |
| Tone | The author's attitude to the subject as revealed in the style and the manner of the writing. |
| Mood | A characteristic state of feeling. |
| Onomatopoeia | A word, which imitates the natural sounds of a thing-just like a sound effect! EX: "Now the crowd's buzzing it's alive." |
| Metaphor | A word or phrase used to compare two unlike objects, ideas thoughts or feelings to provide a clearer description. EX: His life is a highway." |
| Simile | A figure of speech that makes a comparison, showing similarities between two different things, using "like" or "as". EX: "Taking like steps like a centipede." |
| Alliteration | When you use words that have the same sound at the beginning, like EX: "Stellar student." Ex: All the boneheads who bring beef leave with lots of lyrical lesion." |
| Assonance | The repetition of the sound of a vowel like "that cloud is round. Ex: "He seems the least beat in any season." |
| Personification | A figure of speech in which a thing, an idea or an animal is given human attributes. Ex: "the moon smiles as the city breathes." |
| Hyperbole | Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally. Ex: Such as "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse." Ex: "He's the best ever at it so certainly." |
| Idiom | A characteristic mode of expression EX: It's raining cats and dogs" Ex: Hold your horses. |
| Connotation ** | An idea or feeling that a word invokes. The emotion Ex: Christmas |
| Denotation ** | The literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests. Dictionary definition. |
| Repetition ** | the repeating of words or phrases |
| Juxtaposition | Contrasting two things Ex: "A creep to a dude who leads the way." |
| Irony | opposite meaning Ex: "His lines hit as soft aas iron believe him." |
| Allusion | A small reference to a person, place, passage or object from another literary work. |
| Pun | A single word or phrase that plays on words by having two meanings or the same sound. |
| Consonance | Repetition of consonant sounds(all letters not vowels) |
| Rhetorical device | Words use to convey meaning or persuade. |
| Anaphora | Repetition of phrases usually at the beginning of a sentence. |
| Epistrophe | Repetition of phrases or words at the end of a sentence. |
| Satire | Using humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridcule to make fun of someone. |
| Symbol/symbolism | An object or action that stands beyond something else. EX: white Ex: golden arches |
| Figurative Language | Saying something other than what is literally meant. |
