Poetry terms
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 onomatopoeia | words that imitate the sound they denote |
| symbol | something that stands for something else |
| extended metaphor | A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work. |
| poetry | single theme or feeling written in stanzas that may or may not rhyme |
| stanza | a group of lines in a poem or song that constitute a division (in prose: paragraph) |
| alliteration | repetition of initial consonant sounds |
| free verse | no regular pattern of sound or lines in a poem |
| rhyme scheme | pattern of rhyming lines |
| end rhyme | rhyme occurs at end of lines of poetry |
| internal rhyme | rhyme within a line |
| exact rhyme | perfect rhyme, such as buzz and fuzz |
| slant rhyme | rhyme in which the vowel sounds are nearly, but not exactly the same (i.e. the words "stress" and "kiss"); sometimes called half-rhyme, near rhyme, or partial rhyme |
| imagery | language that appeals to the senses |
| tone | author's feeling about the subject of a written work |
| simile | comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as" |
| hyperbole | extreme exaggeration |
| speaker | narrator of a poem |
| Robert Frost | "The Runaway," "The Pasture, " and "A Minor Bird" |
| Shel Silverstein | "Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would not Take the Garbage Out" |
| Lewis Carroll | "Father William" |
| Dr. Seuss | "The Sneetches" |
| Emily Dickinson | "I'm Nobody!" |
| e.e. cummings | "maggie and milly and molly and may" & "all in green went my love riding" |
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