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Poetry Genres.

Poetry learned in English class

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Imagery Imagery is language that appeals to the five senses and helps create vivid mental pics oma reader’s mind Uses figures of speech meant to be used imaginatively instead of literally
Metaphor Comparison of two unlike things and doesn't use like or as
Simile a comparison of two unlike things that does us like or as
Personification Gives human qualities to inanimate objects and/or animals
Idioms Phrases that are meant to be understood imaginatively, not literally. Idioms have a meaning all of their own, separate from the meanings of the individual words.
Alliteration The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words
Otomantopeoia The use of words that sound like the noises they describe ie. CRASH, BOOM, THUD
Assonance The repetition of vowel sounds in stressed syllables that end in different consonant sounds, as in wake and fate or bloom and june
Consonance Repetition of the same consonant sounds at the end of stressed syllables, but with different vowel sounds before them, as in down and dawn
Rhyme True rhyme - Occurs when the last syllable of words have identical sounds Internal Rhymes - the Rhyming of two or more words within the same line of poetry End Rhyme - Refers to the rhyming of words at the ends of lines of poetry
Rhythm refers to a musical quality produced by the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem
Meter A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllable
Exaggeration an obvious stretching of the truth
Hyberbole a deliberte exaggeration used to make a point
Oxymoron places two contradictory words for a special effect (Pretty ugly, jumbo shrimp.)
Paradox A statement that is true even though it seems to be saying two opposite things. (She loved her brother but she hated him too.)
Allusion brief reference to a historical, religious or mythilogicl fact/story in literature or poetry.
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