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poem
poetry
Question | Answer |
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Figurative Language | Use of figures of speech to create a mental picture |
Simile | A comparison using “like” and “as” |
Metaphor | A comparison without using “like” or “as” |
Personification | Giving things that aren’t humans, human characteristics |
Imagery | Use of descriptive words to make pictures in your mind |
Theme | The subject of the poem |
Sound Effects | Words that show noise in writing |
Rhythm | Repetition of sound in the writing that makes it flow |
Meter | Repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables/words in a writing |
Iamb | Rhythm of da Da da DA da DA da DA in a line |
Repetition | repeating sounds, words, or lines to better create a poem |
Alliteration | Repeating the same first letter of a word in a few words |
Onomatopoeia | Words creating noise |
Structured Verse | Certain rules used to write a piece of poetry |
Free Verse | No structure to it and can be whatever you want |
Haiku | Makes picture in the readers mind only using 17 syllables and three lines |
Limerick | Five |
Concrete Poem | Poem that is the shape of what the poem describes |
Sonnet | Love poem that rhymes and is 14 lines |
assonance | repetition of vowel sounds within words |
consonance | repetition of consonant sounds within words |
trochee | stress on first syllable unstressed on 2nd |
spondee | both syllables stressed |
pyrrhic | both syllables unstressed |
catalexis | dropping final stress from trochee or dactyl |