Poetry Unit Vocabulary
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Sensory language | writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses, sight, sound, smell, taste and touch. |
| figurative language | Is writing that is innovative, imaginative, and not meant to be taken litterally. |
| Metaphors | Describe one thing as if it were something else. |
| Personification | Gives human qualities to something non-human. |
| Similies | use like or as to compare two unlike things. |
| Sound devices | Add a musical quality to poetry. |
| Alliteration | Is the repetition of constant sounds at the beginnings of words. |
| Repetition | Is the repeated use of a sound, word or phrase. |
| Assonance | Is the repetition of vowel sounds stressed in syllables that end with different constant sounds. |
| Consonance | the repetition of final constant sounds in stressed syllables with different vowel sounds. |
| Onomatapoeia | The use of words that imitate sounds. |
| Rhyme | the repetition of sounds at the ends of words. |
| Meter | Is the rhythmical pattern or the arrangement and number of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem. |
| Ballad | Are song like poems that tell a story, often dealing with adventure and romance. |
| Free Verse | Poetry is defined by its lack of strict structure. It has no regular meter, no international rhyme, no fixed line length, and no specific stanza pattern. |
| Haiku | Is a three line japanese verse form. The first and third lines each have syllables and the second line has seven. |
| Rhyming Couplets | Are a pair of rhyming lines that usually have the same meter and length. |
| Limerick | Are humerous five line poems with a specific rhythym pattern and rhyme scheme. |
| Cinquain | A 5 line poem following a pattern. |
| Diamond Poem | Shows a change 1st and last line are opposites. |
| Bio Poem | Writting a Poem About Someone else. |
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