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Poetry vocab words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Alliteration | repitition of initial consonant sounds |
| Ballade | a song like poem |
| connotation | the implied or suggested meaning of a word |
| couplet | two consecutive rhyming lines |
| Denotation | the literal defination of a word |
| Diction | Is word choice to disscuss a writers diction is to consider the vocabulary |
| Dramatic Poetry | is poetry that involves the techniques of drama |
| figure of speech | a word or phrase that identifies or descibes something in a way that is not literally true |
| Genere | Is a division or type of literature |
| Hyperbole | gross exaggeration for effect |
| Image | Is a word or phrase that appeals to one or more of the senses |
| Irony | an unexpected twist |
| Lyric poetry | Is a highly verse that expresses the emotions, attitudes |
| Metaphor | a direct comparison |
| Narritive poetry | is poetry that tells a story |
| onomatopeia | the use of words whoses sounds imitate natural sounds |
| personification | giving an object or animal human qualities or characteristics |
| Rhyme scheme | the pattern of rhymes at the end of lines in a poem |
| sarcasm | a form a verbal irony; saying something and meaning the exact opposite |
| simile | a comparison using like or as |
| Speaker | is the persons whose voice we hear in the poem |
| Stanza | Lines grouped together to form a division of a poem seperated frome each other lines and spaces |
| Sybol | an object person place event that stands for something more than itself |