Poetry Vocabulary
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17 terms
Italian | English |
|---|---|
 Poetry | words arranged in such a way as to express ideas and emotions |
| Imagery | a mental picture |
| Stanza | the number of lines that divide a poem into sections |
| Synonyms | a word that means the same as another word |
| Figurative language | abstract, not literal |
| Simile | comparing two or more things using like or as |
| Metaphor | comparing two or more things without using like or as |
| Personification | giving human qualities to animals or objects |
| Alliteration | words that begin with the same consonant sound |
| Onomatopoeia | words that sound like the objects they name or the sounds those objects make |
| Syllable | a unit of spoken language that consists one or more vowel sounds |
| Literal | following the exact meaning without exaggerating |
| Rhyme | when two or more words have the same sound |
| Rhythm | a regular pattern of accented and unaccented syllables |
| Rhyme Schemes | in poems that rhyme, each ending rhyme sound is given a letter of the alphabet. |
| Repetition | repeating the same words or phrases in a line or poem to emphasize a point |
| Meter | the rhythm established by a poem, and it is usually dependent not only on the number of syllables in a line but also the way those syllables are accented |
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