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| Symbol | Something that represents something else. Example: The American Flag represents the United States, Indepedence, and/or freedom. |
| Alliteration | Repetition of a consonant sound. Silly Sally Swept the Sofa |
| Allusion | A Reference to another person,place,time or literaty work that brings deeper meaning to a work of literature. |
| Assonance | Repetition of a Vowel. The rain in spain falls mainly in the plains. |
| Metaphor | Comparing two things using Like or As |
| Similie | The Woman's skirt was like a cake looking as if it has been frosted with lace. |
| Imagery | The river was clear and cold, rushing along like millions of little feet tramping over rocks. |
| Rhyme | When a word matches another in sounds. I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them Sam I Am. |
| Onomatopeia | When a word is written to represent the way it souds. Example: Buzz, Smash, Clanlk. |
| Stanza | A group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in the poem. |
| Biography | literature written about someone else's life. It is nonfiction. |
| Inference | A guess based on a combination of details and thinking |
| Paraphrase | to restate the meaning of something in different words.l |
| Summarizing | stripping the extra verbiage of the text. |
| End Rhyme | lines ending with words that sound the same. |
| Repitition | Reiteration or the repeating of a word,sound,pharse, or idea. |
| Rhyme Scheme | Rhyme that follows a pattern. |
| Kendrick Lamar | This is a rapper/poet from Compton that began his career by writing poetry. He made all A's in High School. |
| Dr. Suess | This is a famous author who had a great end rhyme scheme and created works such as the cat in the hat. |
| Consonance | Repitition of consonant sounds |
| Maya Angelou | Famous Poet who wrote "I Know Why The caged Bird Sings" |
| Idiom | A Figure of Speech |
| Irony | When an Outcome of a situation is the exact opposite of what is expected. |
| Personification | Giving human traits or characteristics to an object or idea |
| Slam Poetry | also known as “spoken word.” Both slam poetry and spoken words are types of poems presented to the audience in first person Most slam poet’s write about current events |
