Quizlet poetry review

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  1. Langston Huges: harlem renaissance writer and poet
  2. active: [blank] voice places the subject in front of the predicate
  3. allegory: symbolic representation
  4. alliteration: repitition of consonant sounds found at the beginining of words
  5. allusion: a reference to a statement, person, place, event, mythology, ect
  6. appositive: word that renames another noun or pronoun with a noun or pronoun
  7. approximate rhyme: when two words have some sound in common but do not rhyme exactly
  8. assonance: the repition of similar vowel sounds that are followed by different consonant sounds
  9. blank verse: poety written in unthymed iambic pentameter
  10. comma: if you begin a sentence with a subordinate clause, always seperate the clause and the independent clase with a [blank]
  11. conotation: the emotion a word conveys
  12. consonance: the repition of consonant sounds that are followed by different consonant sounds
  13. denotation: dictionary deffinition
  14. diction: word choice
  15. extended metaphor: a metaphor that develops over several lines
  16. first: "i" is [blank] person point of view
  17. free: langston huges enjoyed writing in [blank] versse
  18. free verse: poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme
  19. gerund: a word that ends in ing and serves as a noun
  20. hyperbole: an exaggeration
  21. iamb: a stressed symbol followed by an unstresses symbol
  22. imagery: language that appeals to the 5 senses
  23. infinitive: to plus a verb
  24. internal rhyme: rhyme that occurs in the middle of the line
  25. italics: titles of a book should be in [blank] in order to follow proper MLA format
  26. metaphor: a comparison of two unlike things not using like or as
  27. mood: atmosphere in writing
  28. onomonopia: use of a word whose sound imitates or suggest its meaning
  29. oxymoron: contridicting words
  30. participle: a word that looks like a verb but serves as an adjective
  31. passive: [blank] voice places the subject behind the predicate
  32. personification: giving human qualities to non-human things
  33. rhyme scheme: a regular pattern of rhyme in a poem
  34. rhymed couplet: two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
  35. second: "you" is [blank] point of view
  36. simile: a comparison of two unlike things using like or as
  37. sonnet: a 14 line poem
  38. stanza: group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit
  39. symbol: a peron place or thing that stands for something more than itself
  40. theme: the central idea
  41. thesis: topic sentences should refer to this
  42. third: type of point of view you should use in a formal essay
  43. tone: attitude in writing