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Poetry Terms

Test : May 27th And yeah

TermDefinition
Simile A comparison that uses the signal word LIKE or AS.
Metaphor A direct comparison with no signal words.
Hyperbole An exaggeration that cannot possibly be true.
Personification When a poet describes an animal or object as if it had human qualities.
Alliteration The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
Onomatopoeia The use of words where sounds suggest their meanings.
Idiom A descriptive expression that means something different than the combination of the words that make it up.
Allusion A reference to a person, place, or event from literature, sports, history, movies, or the arts.
Oxymoron A combination of words that have the opposite or very different meanings.
Figurative Language When words and phrases chosen to help a reader picture ordinary things in new ways.
Analogies A comparison between two things that seem dissimilar, in order to show the ways they might be similar.
Imagery Language that appeals to the reader's five senses - sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch.
Rhymes The repetition of similar sounds at the ends of words
Rhythm The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in each line.
Meter Regular repeated arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables.
Foot The basic measurement in poetry that contains one stressed syllable and one or more unstressed syllable.
Verse A single line in a poem.
Refrain Phrases or lines of poetry repeated in the poem.
Stanza A grouped set of lines in a poem, set apart from others with a line of space.
Octave A stanza or poem that contains eight lines.
Couplet A pair of two lines in a poem that contain end rhymes.
Quatrain A stanza or poem that contains four lines.
Created by: irom6154
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