poetry terms
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 poetry | rythmic writing |
| image | language that creates a concrete representation of an object or experience |
| imagery | a collection of related images in a poem |
| figure of speech | language meant to be understood imaginatively not literally |
| metaphor | a fos in which one thing is written about as if it were another |
| simile | a fos in which a comparison is made using like or as |
| personification | describing something not human as human |
| rhyme | repitition of consonant sounds at the ends of words |
| rhythm | patterns of beats in a line of poetry or prose |
| alliteration | repition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words (i.e.peter piper) |
| assonance | repitition of vowel sounds in stressed syllables that end in different consonants (i.e. lime light or row boat) |
| onomatopoeia | sound effect words |
| repitition | more than one use of a sound, word, or phrase |
| symbol | a thing that stands for or represents itself and something else |
| allusion | a reference to literature or history in poetry |
| lyric poem | musical verse that expresses the emotion of a speaker and does not tell a story |
| narrative poem | verse that tells a story |
| dramatic poem | a poem with more than one speaker |
| stanza | a section of a poem |
| hyperbole | exaggeration in poetry |
| prose | any writing that is not poetry or drama |
| internal rhyme | a rhyme within one line |
| extended metaphor | metaphor extended throughout entire poem |
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