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Java Games: Flashcards, matching, concentration, and word search. |
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Poetry Terms
This is a game to reinforce poetic
terms.
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| simile | comparison using "like" |
| personification | giving human traits |
| allusion | referring to famous people, places, things, art, literature, music |
| metaphor | implied comparison |
| ballad | song-like poem |
| lyric poem | deals with feelings |
| dramatic poem | unknown speaker |
| narrative poem | tells a story |
| rhyme | sounds alike |
| onomatopoeia | "sound" words |
| hyperbole | extreme exaggeration |
| paradox | contradiction |
| parallel structure | repeated grammatical arrangement of words |
| alliteration | repeating beginning/initial consonant sounds |
| assonance | repeating vowel sounds |
| consonance | repeating consonants in the middle or at the ends of words |
| symbol | concrete standing for abstract idea |
| theme | author's statement about life |
| pun | play on words |
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