Poetry and Figurative Language Terms
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| poetry | A form of writing that is imaginative, emotional, and thought-provoking.
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| simile | A comparison between two things using the words like or as.
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| metaphor | A comparison between two unrelated things NOT using like or as.
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| hyperbole | Figures of speech that are entirely exaggerated in order to make a point.
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| rhyme | Recurring identical or similar final word sounds within or at the ends of lines of poetry.
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| rhythm | We can feel and understand this part of poetry in songs and dance.Pattern of strong and weak stresses on words to give the poem motion.
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| repetition | Repeated use of sounds, words, or ideas to make a point or create rhythm.
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| alliteration | Repetition of beginning sounds in two or more words in a line or stanza.
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| onomatopoeia | The use of a word whose sound suggests its meaning.
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| rhyme pattern | Organized patterns of rhyming words in poetry.
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| Haiku | A 17 syllable, three line, unrhymed Japanese verse, usually about nature.
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| Limerick | A 5 line, rhymed, rhythmic, poem that is usually humorous.
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| Ballad | A song like narrative(story) poem that uses rhyme, rhythm, and repetition.
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| Free Verse | Poetry with no regular rhyme pattern, or rhythm.
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| imagery | Use of images to describe something in a way that helps the reader visualize(or see) what is happening.
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| voice | The way an author writes. An author's choice of words, figurative language, rhyme, rhythm,and or repetition.
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| tone | The author's attitude or feeling about the text.
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| theme | The author's lesson, message,or moral about life.
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| personification | Giving human characteristics to animals, objects, or ideas.
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| idiom | A phrase that says one thing but means another.
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| stanza | A group of lines in a poem.
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| line | a row of words in a poem.
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| mood | How the writing makes the reader feel.
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| allusion | To make a reference to something else in history, society, or literature.
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| couplet | Two lines of verse that form a unit with a pair of rhyming words.
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| quatrain | A stanza of four lines, especially one having alternate rhymes.
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