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poetry
Question | Answer |
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poems are usually divided into lines then grouped together called | stanzas or verses |
describe one thing as it was something else | metaphors |
gives human qualities to something that is not human | personification |
uses LIKE or AS to compare two apparently unlike things | similes |
a _ _ _ _ _ _ is anything that represents something else | symbol |
is the repetition of consonant sounds in the beginning of words | alliteration |
is the use of any element of language-a sound a word a phrase a clause or a sentence-more than once | repetition |
is the repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants in stressed syllables | assonate |
is the repetition of similar consonant sounds at the end of accented syllables | consonance |
is the use of that imitate sounds | onomatopoeia |
is the repetition of sounds at the end of words | rhyme |
is the rhythmical pattern in a poem | meter |
poetry tells a story in verse. narrative poems often have elements similar to those in short stories such as plot and character | narrative |
is a three line Japanese verse form. first and third line have 5 syllables and the second line has seven syllables | haiku |
has no meter, rhyme, fixed line length or specific stanza pattern | free verse |
poetry expresses the thoughts and feeling of a single speaker | lyric |
are song like poems that tell a story often dealing with adventure and romance | ballads |
poems are shaped to look like their subjects | concrete |
are humorous rhyming five line poems with a specific rhyme pattern and scheme | limericks |
are pairs of rhyming lines usually of the same meter and lenght | rhyming couplets |