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George poetry
George poetry terms
Terms | Definition | examples |
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Imagery | word pictures that appeal to the five senses | oranges big as the sun bursting their skins with juice |
Figurative Language | uses word pictures to compare or describe, not to be taken literally | usually includes metaphor or simile the cracked teapot screams |
Metaphor | says one thing is another | The woman is a rock |
Personification | giving things or animals human characteristics | The wind sighing, crying through the long grass |
Simile | compare two things using like or as | my louv is like a red red rose |
Hyperbole | exaggeration | the man was as tall as a tree |
Alleration | repeating the beginning sound | Peter Piper Picked a peck of Pickled Peppers |
Assonance | repeating vowel sounds | school ,pool ,tool |
Onomatopoeia | words that sound like their meaning | ring crackle |
Repetition | using words or phrases more then once | this morning this morning |
Rhyme | words that end with the same or similar sounds | the slithy toves were the borogroves |
Internal rhyme | rhymes that occurs within one line of a poem | He left it dead ,and with it's head |
Rhyme scheme | pattern created by ending sounds | ab aa b |
Rhythm | pattern created by stressed and unstressed syllables | As I walked OUT in the STREETS of laREdo |
stanza | a group lines in a poem | a paragraph in poetry |
ballad | poetry that tells a story | like a song |
End rhyme | pattern in which the ends of lines contain the same sounds | out to play; in the Freedom March today |