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Poetry Terms 1-13
Stack #133460
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Alliteration | the repetition of beginning consonant sounds (ex. whispering winds) |
| Allusion | reference to a statement, a person, a place, or an event from literature, history, religion, mythology, politics, sports, science, or pop culture |
| Assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds in a series of words (ex. Free and easy) |
| Blank Verse | poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter |
| Diction | word choice |
| Enjambment | the running-on of one line of poetry into another |
| Figurative language | a word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of another and is not meant to be understood on a literal level |
| Hyperbole | figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion or to create a comic effect (“Lend me your ears.”) |
| Metaphor | a comparison of two unlike things not using “like” or “as” (She is a rock.) |
| Onomatopoeia | the use of words in which the sounds seem to resemble the sounds they describe (Bam, Crash) |
| Persona | the “character” the writer assumes for the purpose of the work |
| Personification | a kind of metaphor that gives inanimate objects or abstract ideas human characteristics (The flowers danced.) |
| Poetry | language arrange in lines with a regular rhythm and often and definite rhyme scheme (AA BB CC DD AA) |
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