Elements of Poetry
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Imagery | creating a picture in the reader's mind through words |
| Simile | a comparison between two unlike things using the words, "like" or "as". |
| Personification | giving inanimate objects qualities of something living or animate |
| Rhythm | the arrangement of spoken words alternating stressed and unstressed elements |
| Rhyme | the repetition of sounds at the ends of words |
| tone | The attitude of the author toward the audience and characters (e.g., serious or humorous). |
| onomatopoeia | using words that imitate the sound they denote |
| alliteration | use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse |
| theme | a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work |
| implied metaphor | Implies or suggests the comparison between the two thing without stating it directly |
| extended metaphor | a metaphor which extends over several lines or an entire poem |
| internal rhyme | rhyme within a line |
| approximate rhyme | a term used for words in a rhyming pattern that have some kind of sound correspondence but are not perfect rhymes |
| metaphor | a figure of speech comparing two unlike things without using like or as |
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