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ELA Exam
vocab. 15-28
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Narrative poetry | poetry that tells a story and is usually longer than other poems |
| Onomatopoeia | a word that imitates a sound |
| Personification | giving human characteristics to non-human things |
| Rhyme | the reeated endings of words |
| Rhyme scheme | a regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem, indicated by using letters of the alphabet for each new rhyme |
| Rythm | a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables |
| Stanza | a group of lines in a poem |
| Theme | the central meaning/ the comment that the poet's making about life |