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Poetry
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| ALLITERATION | The repetition of the initial letter or sound in two or more words in a line (usually verse). |
| ASSONANCE | Repetition of vowel sounds |
| CONSONANCE | Repetition of final consonant sounds |
| COUPLET | A pair of rhyming lines |
| METER | A fixed pattern of accented and unaccented syllables in lines of fixed length to create rhythm. |
| QUATRAIN | A stanza containing four lines. |
| REPETITION | Repeated use of sounds, words, or ideas for effect and emphasis. |
| RHYME: | The repetition of sounds in words. |
| END RHYME | is rhyme at the ends of lines. |
| INTERNAL RHYME | is the rhyme within lines. |
| RHYME SCHEME | The pattern of end-rhymes in a poem. |
| RHYTHM | A musical quality produced by the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables or by the repetition of certain other sound patterns. |
| IMAGERY | Concrete details that appeal to the (5) senses. (touch, taste, see, hear, or smell) |
| SYMBOL | A person, place, event or object that stands for something else. In literature things that are symbols are often mentioned more than once. |
| THEME: | The underlying meaning or commentary on human behavior in a literary work. It is usually not stated in the work. The reader must think about various elements of the work and make an inference about the theme. |
| FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE | language that goes beyond the literal language that goes beyond the meaning of words. |
| METAPHOR | A figure of speech that involves an implied comparison between two relatively unlike things. Example: The sun is a flower. |
| SIMILE | A figure of speech that uses like or as to make a comparison Example: The room was as quiet as a cemetery. |
| PERSONIFICATION | This is a figure of speech that applies human characteristics to non-human objects.Example: The hot sun snarled down at us. |
| ONOMATOPOEIA | This is a figure of speech where words imitate sounds.Examples: Buzz! Crunch! POW! |
| HYPERBOLE | Intentionally exaggerated figure of speech.Examples: I think of you a million times a day. |
| PUN | The humorous use of a word or phrase so as to emphasize or suggest its different meanings or applications, or the use of words that are alike or nearly alike in sound but different in meaning; a play on words. |
| OXYMORON | A combination of contradictory or incongruous wordsExamples: thinking out loud, jumbo shrimp, vanilla fudge, whole piece, a fine mess |
| IDIOM | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either grammatically or in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elementsExamples: A picture is worth a thousand words, hold your horses |
| TONE | The author's attitude toward his subject or character. Tone is shown through the writer's word choice and detail |
| MOOD | The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates. |
| FREE VERSE | Poetry with neither regular meter nor rhyme scheme. |
| HAIKU | A 17-syllable, delicate, unrhymed Japanese verse, usually about nature.1st line has 5 syllables,2nd line has 7 syllables,3rd line has 5 syllables |
| BALLAD | A songlike narrative poem, usually featuring rhymes, rhythm, and refrain. |
| LIMERICK | A 5-line, rhymed, rhythmic verse, usually humorous |
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ZacharyCB
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