9th Lit. Poetry
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americanwriters11 on March 15, 2010
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Ballad | is a song like poem that tells a story, often one dealing with adventure and romance. |
| Speaker- | is the imaginary voice assumed by the writer of a poem. |
| Hyperbole- | is a deliberate exaggeration or overstatement. |
| Rhyme- | Is the repetition of sound at the end of words. |
| Alliteration | Is the repetition of initial constant sounds |
| Allusion | Is a reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work of art. |
| Mood | is the feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage. |
| Narrative poem | like a short story, tells a story that includes a plot, characters and a setting. |
| Onomatopeia | the use of words that imitate sounds. |
| Personification | a figurative language in which a non-human is given human characteristics. |
| Tone | is the attitude that an author takes toward the audience, the subject, or a character. |
| Lyric | is a highly musical verse that expresses the observation and feeling of single speaker. |
| Theme- | is the central message or insight into life revealed through a literary work. |
| Rhyme scheme | is a regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem. |
| Metaphor | a figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else. |
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