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Poetry/Drama
Term | Definition |
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Poetry | Artistic writing that creates word pictures |
Pose | Ordinary writing in a sentence |
Meter | A rhythmic pattern of word sounds |
Rhyme | Words that sound the same |
Free Verse | Words at the end of poetry lines do not rhyme |
Rhyme Scheme | The pattern of rhyme in a poem |
Personification | Something nonhuman doing something only humans do |
Alliteration | The repetition of the same sounds at the beginning of words |
Hyperbole | An extreme exaggeration |
Onomatopoeia | Words that imitate the sounds they deserve |
Metaphor | A comparison not using "like" or "as" |
Stanza | A paragraph in a poem |
End rhyme | Last words that end with they same rhyme |
Allusion | A brief reference to something or someone |
Couplet | Two lines that rhyme |
Haiku | A single subject peom |
Dialogue | Lines spoken by actors |
Drama | A story written to be performed by actors |
Act | A major section of a play |
Scenes | A subdivision of an act |
Script | The written text of a play |