| Term | Definition |
|---|
| sound | what a listner hears -the arrangement of words to create certain sounds make up the rhyme, rhythm, and repetition in a poem |
| lines | what the poetry is written in- these may or may not be sentences |
| form | the way a poem looks or its arrangement on the page |
| imagery | words and phrases that appeal to the five senses used to create a picture in the reader's mind |
| rhythm | the beat of the poem-the pattern o fstressed and unstressed syllables |
| rhyme | words that end in the same sounds- usually used at the ends of lines |
| personification | when a poet describes an object or an animal as if it were human or had human qualities |
| onomatopoeia | the use of words to imitate sounds - example - bang, pop, hiss |
| figurative language | words and phrases used to help the reader see ordinary things in new ways - these are called figures of speech |
| symbol | an act or thing that represents more than itself |
| oxymoron | words put together that are opposites |
| meter | the rhythm or pattern of accented or unaccented syllables; rhythmical arrangement of syllables into verses |
| triplet | a three line stanza |
| quatrain | a four line stanza |
| end rhyme | the rhyming words at the end lines of poetry |
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