English Poetry terms
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| figurative languages | language that is not meant to be taken literally and is used to express ideas and images in vivid and imaginative ways by associating them to other things
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| simile | compares two unlike things using "like" or "as"
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| metaphor | compares two unlike things without using "like" or "as". Something is described very directly as though it were something else
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| personification | a metaphor in which an inanimate object is given the characteristics of a living thing
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| hyperbole | uses exaggeration for effect and is not meant to be taken literally
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| alliteration | the repetition of initial consonant sounds to imitate a sound or to create a rhythmic effect.
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| onomatopoeia | the use of words that imitate sounds - hiss, buzz, ring, crash, splash
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| foot | a group of stresses in a rhythmic poem
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| quatrain | 4 line stanza
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| blank verse | poetry written with a definite rhythm, but no rhyme
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| lyric poem | a poem expressing a poets personal thoughts and feelings, often in a vivid and musical language
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| sonnet | a 14 line poem in iambic pentameter
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