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Poetry Vocabulary
8th grade standard poetry vocabulary words
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Prose | the ordinary language where people use it in speaking and writing. |
| Poetry | Ordinary language where people use it |
| Speaker | When the voice is talking to the reader |
| Line | A word or row of words that may or may not form a sentence |
| Stanza | A group of lines that forms |
| Figure of Speech | A word or expression that is not meant to be read |
| Simile | Comparing with like and as |
| Metaphor | Comparing without like or as |
| Hyperbole | Exaggeration |
| Imagery | Using the 6 senses |
| Alliteration | Using sounds at the beginning |
| Assonance | Using vowel sounds withthin line of poetry |
| Onomatopoeia | Using words or phrases that imitates the sound in two or more words |
| Rhyme | Stressed vowel sound and any sound in two or more words |
| Internal Rhyme | Occurring in the line of poetry |
| End Rhyme | Occurring at the line at the end |
| Rhyme Scheme | The pattern of end rhymes that assigns a different letter of the alphabet to every new line |
| Iambic Pentameter | A unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable |
| Pentameter | Contains a 5 meterial feet |
| Lyric Poetry | Expresses a speaker’s personal things |
| Narrative Poetry | Tells a story |
| Ode | Lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular to a particular subject |
| Sonnets | usually written in a series, consists of 14 lines, made up 3 quatrains (stanzas of 4 lines each) and a final couplet (two line stanza) |