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Praxis II-0014 Language Arts/Poetry Terms

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Personification   Nonhuman things give human attributes  
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Personification   What is this an example of: "The sky is crying"  
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Metaphor   Two thins are compared  
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Metaphor   What is this an example of: "He was a lion in a battle"  
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Simile   Two things are compared using the terms "like" or "as"  
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Hyperbole   Deliberate exaggeration  
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Hyperbole   What is this an example of: "A flood of tears"  
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Hyperbole   What is this an example of: "Tons of money"  
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Lyrical   Poem such as a sonnet or an ode  
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Lyrical   May resemble a song in form or style  
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Free Verse   Also known as "vers libre"  
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Free Verse   Poetry composed of rhymed or unrhymed lines w/no set meter  
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Narrative   Person telling a story  
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Couplet   Pair of lines in a poem that are the same length, usually rhyme, & form a complete thought  
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Elegy   Poem that laments death of a person  
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Elegy   Poem that is simply sad and thoughtful  
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Sonnet   Lyric poem that is 14 lines long  
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Limerick   Light humorous poem of 5 lines  
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Limerick   Rhyme scheme of AABBA  
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Haiku   Japanese poem composed of 3 unrhymed lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables  
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Haiku   Poem that often reflects some aspect of nature  
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Dipthong   Complex speech sound; one vowel changes into another; EX: oil, boil  
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Schema   Plan, outline, or diagram  
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Syntactic   Putting words together (EX: Blackberry)  
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Semantic   Different meanings of words arising from a word  
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Idiom   One expression in a language that does not completely translate into the same phrase in a different language  
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Alliteration   A group of words starting with the same letter (EX: Alice Ate Apples)  
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Assonance   Repetition of sounds  
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Systematic   Classification; orderly  
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Graphophonic   Producing sound  
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Newbery Award   Most distinguished award for writing in kid's books  
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Caldecott Award   Most distinguished award for illustrations in kid's books  
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