Unit Test 3- Poetry
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Sammifalkowski on March 6, 2012
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NDA Honors English Freshman
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 amid | prep. among; in the middle of |
| emitting | v. sending out |
| shriveled | adj. shrunken and wrinkled |
| submerged | adj. covered with water or the like |
| succumbed | v. gave way; yielded |
| awestruck | adj. filled with wonder |
| sonnet | 14- line lyric poem with formal patterns of rhyme, rhythm, and line structure |
| meter | a controlled pattern of rhythm |
| alliteration | the repetition of the initial consonant sounds of words |
| dramatic | the writer tells a story using a character's own thoughts or statements |
| lyric | a brief poem in which the author expresses the feeling of a single speaker creating a single effect on the reader |
| narrative | the writer tells a story in verse FORMS: epic: long; about gods or heroes ballad: song like, about adventure or romance |
| rhyme | the repetition of identical or similar sounds stressed syllables |
| rhyme scheme | a pattern of end rhymes |
| free verse | has no set meter or rhyme scheme |
| metaphor | compare two unlike things |
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