Poetry terms
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 alliteration | repetition of sounds at the beginning of words |
| connotation | ideas and feelings associated with a word |
| couplet | a pair of rhyming lines |
| exaggeration | making something seem larger than it really is |
| form of a poem | the arrangement of lines on a page |
| free verse | poetry without regular patterns of rhyme or rhythm |
| Haiku | Japanese form of poetry that has three lines with a 5-7-5 syllable pattern |
| simile | comparison between two unlike things that have some quality in common, uses a connecting word (like or as) |
| speaker | the voice of a poem |
| stanza | group of lines in a poem; similar to paragraphs in prose |
| hyperbole | author's use of exaggeration or overstatement |
| idiom | an expression which means something different than its individual words |
| imagery | words and phrases that appeal to a reader's senses |
| limerick | a short humorous poem composed of 5 lines with a rhyme scheme of aabba |
| metaphor | a comparison between two unlike things that have some quality in common that does not use a connecting word |
| meter | the pattern of accented and unaccented syllables that create the rhythm in a poem |
| narrative poem | poem that tells a story |
| lyric poem | poem that describes an emotion |
| onomatopoeia | words whose sounds suggest meanings- sound effects |
| personification | giving human traits to non-human things |
| rhyme scheme | pattern of rhyme in a poem |
| rhythm | a repetition of pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables- gives the poem a beat |
| rhyme | repetition of sounds at the end of words |
| end rhyme | rhyme at the end of lines of poetry |
| internal rhyme | rhyme within a line of poetry |
| slant rhyme | almost rhyme |
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