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Vocabulary Flashcards
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| poetry | Poetry`s "tools" include forms or patterns, rhythm, rhyme, repetition. Poetry sings. |
| Rhythm | Pattern of stressed or unstressed syllables in spoken or written language. |
| Repetition | use of any element of language more than once. |
| Stanza | group of lines of poetry that are usually similar in length and pattern. |
| Metaphor | describes something as if it were something else. |
| Personification | gives human qualities to something that is for human. |
| Simile | use like or as to compare two seemingly unlike things. |
| Symbol | anything that represents something else. |
| Alliteration | repetition of consonant sounds in the beginning of words. |
| Repetition | use of any element of language more than once. |
| Assonance | repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants in stressed syllables. |
| Consonance | repetition of similar consonant sounds at the ends of accented syllables. |
| Onomatopoeia | is the use of words that imitate sounds. |
| rhyme | is the repetition of sounds at the end of words. |
| Meter | is the rhythmical pattern in a poem. |
| Narrative Poetry | is any account of connected events, presented to a reader or listener in a sequence of written or spoken words. |
| Haiku | a japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, traditionally evoking images of the natural world. |
| Free Verse | poetry that does not rhyme or have regular meter. |
| Lyric Poetry | lyric poems typically express personal or emotional feelings and are traditionally the home of the present tense. |
| Ballads | a poem or song narrating or story in short stanzas. |
| Concrete Poems | poetry that visually conveys the poet`s meaning through the graphic arrangement of letters, words, or symbols on the page. |
| Limericks | a humorous, frequently, bawdy, verse of three long and two short lines rhyming aabba. |
| Rhyming Couplets | pair of lines of meter in poetry. |