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Poetry terms
Vocabulary Flashcards
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Poetry | a shorts paragraph that expresses feelings or stories |
| Rhythm | recurrence of stress in lines of verse |
| Repetition | act of process or an instance of repeating or being repeated |
| Stanza | a division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form |
| Metaphor | words without using like or as |
| Personification | gives human qualities to something that is not human |
| Simile | words with using like or as |
| Symbol | anything that represents something else |
| Alliteration | repetition of consonant sounds in the begining of words |
| Assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants in stressed syllables |
| Consonance | the repetition of similar consonant sounds at ends of accented syllables |
| Onomatopoeia | the use of words that imitate sounds |
| Rhyme | the repetition of sounds at the ends or words |
| Meter | the rhythmical pattern in a poem |
| Narrative Poem | poetry that tells a story in a verse |
| Haiku | 3 lined Japanese verse form |
| Free Verse | poetry defined by its lack of strict structure |
| Lyric Poem | poetry expresses the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker |
| Ballads | songlike poems that tell a story |
| Concrete Poem | poems that are shaped to look like their subjects |
| Limericks | humorous rhyming 5 line poem with a specific rhythm pattern and rhyme scheme |
| Rhyming Couplets | pairs of rhyming lines usually of the same meter and length |