Poetry Terms Examples for Test
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soccergirl326 on February 7, 2012
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18 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 alliteration | "Peter Piper picked" |
| assonance | "fit as a fiddle (or) mouse in the house" |
| consonance | "the past is fast (or) last but not least" |
| allusion | "I wish I could go up, up, and away like Peter Pan." |
| connotation | filet mingon=wealthy |
| denotation | Steak |
| couplet | "like a child from the womb and like a ghost from the tomb." (or) "The dog is in the house and the cat is with the mouse." |
| hyperbole | "Its raining buckets outside." |
| mataphor | "the butterfly is a jewel." |
| paradox | "I always lie" (not true) |
| onomatopoeia | "moo" (or) "quack" |
| oxymoron | "bitter-sweet" |
| personification | "the stars dance in the sky" |
| end rhyme | "The tree is next to me." |
| internal rhyme | "I went to the store and gave to the poor." |
| simile | "He is as quick as a cheetah." |
| symbol | "apple=teacher" (or) "tree=growth" |
| syntax | "He had never slept ina better bed", Rainsford decided. |
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