Poetry Terms
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 alliteration | The repetition of the same or very similar consonant sounds in words that are close together. |
| figure of speech | A word or phrase that describes one thing in therms of something else and is not literally true. |
| free verse | poetry without a regular meter or rhyme scheme |
| imagery | language that appeals to the senses |
| limerick | a humerous five-line verse that has a regular meter and the rhyme scheme "aabba." |
| metaphor | An imaginative comparison between two unlike things, which one thing is said to be another thing. |
| mood | the overall emotion created by a work of literature |
| onomatopoeia | the use of words with sounds that echo their sense. |
| personification | a figure of speech in which a nonhuman thing or quality is talked about as if it were human. |
| poetry | a kind of rythmic, compressed language that uses figures of speech and imagery designed to appeal to emotion and imagination. |
| refrain | a group of words repeated at intervals in a poem, song, or speech. |
| rhyme | the repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words close together in a poem |
| rhythm | a muscial quality produced by the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllable or by the repetition of certain other sound patterns. |
| simile | a comparison between two unlike things, using a word such as like, as, than, or resembles. |
| symbol | a person, place, thing, or event that has its own meaning, and it stands for something beyond itself as well. |
| theme | the idea about life revealed in a work of literature. |
| tone | The attitude that a writer taked toward the audience, a subject, or a character. |
| foreshadowing | The use of clues or hints to suggest events that will occur later in the plot. |
| ode | A poem that pays tribute to someone or something. |
| end rhyme | rhymes at the end of lines |
| internal rhyme | rhymes within lines |
| hyperbole | an extreme exaggeration used to make a point |
| idiom | 2 or more words, that mean something more than the literal meaning of those words |
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