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poetry test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Lyric poem- | expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet; generally relatively short; often unrhymed |
| Sonnet | a lyric poem that consist of 14 lines; usually have strict patterns of rhyme; often in iambic and pentameter |
| elegy | serious, mournful, melancholy lyric poem mourning or great loss; a lament for the dead or a funeral song. |
| narrative poem | a poem that tells a story |
| simile | uses like or as to compare two seemingly unlike things. |
| metaphor | compares two seemingly things; does not like or as |
| extended metaphor | a metaphor that is sustained for several lines or throughout a work |
| personification | gives human quality to an animal, object, or idea |
| hyperbole | extreme exaggeration used to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor |
| apostrophe | a from of personification in which the absent or dead are spoken to as if present |
| idiom- | an accepted phrase or expression which has a meaning different than each of its individual words. |
| Onomatopoeia | words or phrases that imitate sound |
| alliteration | the repetition of constant sounds at the beginning of nearby words. |
| assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words. |
| consonance | the repetition of consonant sounds in nearby words. |
| rhyme | repetition of identical or similar sounds at the ends of nearby words |
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