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Poetry
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Term | Definition |
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alliteration | The beginning of two or more words in close connection with the same letter, or the same sound. |
assonance | The repetition of the same or similar vowel sounds within a passage. |
couplet | A two-line pair of rhymed iambic pentameter lines. |
figurative language | Language that communicates meanings beyond the literal level of what is being expressed, used to create effects, emphasize ideas, and evoke emotions. |
free verse | Verse that doe not contain regular patterns of rhythm and rhyme. It shows a rhythm more like that of everyday speech. |
hyperbole | The literary term for exaggeration, the overstating of something for emphasis. |
imagery | The descriptive words and phrases a writer uses to re-create sensory experience by referring to "concrete" objects, scenes, actions, or states. |
onomatopoeia | Sound effect words that echo their meaning. |
simile | A comparison between two different objects using "like" or "as". |
metaphor | A comparison that states something IS something else. |
personification | Giving human traits to non-human objects. |