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poem vocab.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Poetry | literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm |
| Alliteration | the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words |
| Free Verse | poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter |
| Haiku | a Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five, traditionally evoking images of the natural world |
| Metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable |
| Onomatopoeia | the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named |
| Personification | representing a non-human living thing, inanimate object, or idea as human, or attributing to it human traits and qualities, such as a physical body, emotions, desires, sensations, physical gestures and speech |
| rhyme | correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words |
| rhyme scheme | the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse |
| rhythm | a strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound |
| simile | a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind |
| stanza | a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem |
| verse | The literary device verse denotes a single line of poetry |
| couplet | A couplet is a pair of lines of meter in poetry |
| refrain | refrain, phrase, line, or group of lines repeated at intervals throughout a poem |
| narrative poetry | Narrative poetry is a form of poetry that tells a story, often making use of the voices of a narrator and characters as well |
| meter | The rhythmic pattern of a stanza, determined by the kind and number of lines |
| acrostic | An acrostic poem is a poem where certain letters in each line spells out a word or phrase |
| cinquain | a five-line stanza |
| concrete poem | Concrete poetry is a type of poetry that uses some sort of visual presentation to enhance the effect of the poem on the reader |
| diamante | diamante is a style of poetry that is made up of seven lines |
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