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Poetry #1

TermDefinition
Meter pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry
Rhyme repetition of words or sounds
Figurative Language language that uses figures of speech and cannot be taken literally
metaphor comparison between two things
Hyperboyl exaggeration that something either has much more or less of a quality than it actually does
personification giving human characteristics to non human things
onomatopoeia use of words to describe sounds
simile comparison between two things using like or as
alliteration repition of beggining consonats sounds in words
Stanzas groups of lines that often have a definate beat or rhytem
Refrain repitation of words or phrases at the end of each stanza
Metrical poem that has a planed meter or rhythem
Free Verse dose not have any meter
Formula Poetry poems that follow specified formula or pattern
Assonace the reptition of vowel sounds in words
Consonance is reppition of consonat sounds anywere in the words
Couplet a two lined stanza userally rhymed
Imagery mental pictures that are created with words
Mood the emotion you feel when you read a poem
Oxymoron a phrase that combines two seemingly contradistory elements
Pun a play on words with simular sounds or one with multipe meanings
Repition the repeting of a word or phrase
Rhyme when two or more words have the same sound
Rhyme Scheme a pattern of acssented or unacsennted sylables
Stress emphasis given to a word or sylable
Symbol an object, person, action or situation that signifies more than it's self
Tone the writers additude twoard a subject
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