| Term | Definition |
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| Poetry | Poetry is literature that uses a few words to tell about ideas, feelings and paints a picture in the readers mind. |
| form | The form of a poem is the way that it looks on the page. |
| Lines | The way that poets arrange words into lines. |
| Stanzas | Groups of lines in traditional poetry. |
| Free Verse | Poems that do not usually rhyme and have no fixed rhythm or pattern. They are written like a conversation. |
| Sound Devices | Elements of poetry that use one type of sound related characteristic. |
| Meter | A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. |
| Rhyme | Sounds that are alike at the end of words, such as snow and crow. |
| Alliteration | Consonant sounds repeated at the beginnings of words |
| Onomatopoeia | Words that imitate the sound they are naming |
| Rhythm | The beat of the poem. |
| Repetition | The repeating of sounds, words, phrases, or lines in a poem. |
| Figurative Language | Words and phrases that help the reader picture things in a new way. |
| Imagery | Words or phrases that appeal to the five senses: sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. |
| Simile | A comparison of two things using the words like or as. |
| Metaphor | A comparison of two things WITHOUT using “as or like” |
| Personification | Giving an animal or an object human qualities. |
| Tone | The writer's attitude toward his readers and his subject; his mood or moral view. A writer can be formal, informal, playful, ironic, and especially, optimistic or pessimistic. |
| Assonance | Repeated VOWEL sounds in a line or lines of poetry |
| Symbolism | When a person, place, thing, or event that has meaning in itself also represents, or stands for, something else. |
| Idiom | An expression where the literal meaning of the words is not the meaning of the expression. It means something other than what it actually says. |
| Hyperbole | obvious and intentional exaggeration |
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