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Poetry Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| alliteration | repetition of the same letter or sound at the beginning of each or most of the words in a sentence |
| assonance | repetition of a pattern of similar sounds within a sentence |
| chorus | part of a song or poem that is repeated following each verse |
| consonance | repetition of the same consonant or consonant pattern, two or more times in short succession |
| couplet | two lines of poetry that rhyme and are the same length in rhythm |
| enjambment | when a phrase,clause or a sentence in a line of poetry doesnt finish at the line break but spills over into the next line |
| foot | unit of metre consisting of a combination of stressed and unstressed syllables |
| hypebole | a great exaggeration |
| iambic pantameter | describes the particular rhythm that words establish in a line |
| metaphor | there to make an even stronger image in the readers head by describing a place, subject, or object |
| onomataopeia | a word that imitates |
| oxymoron | figure of speech that uses contradictory terms |
| personification | when you make an object or idea do something that a human can do |
| refrain | to use a verse or phrase repeatedly |
| repetition | a word or phrase that is placed more than once in a poem |
| rhyme | two words sound the same when spoken |
| rhythm | a pattern of stresses within a line or verse |
| simile | a figure of speech that compares two things in a sentence |
| stanza | a set amount of lines that can be grouped by a rhythmic pattern |
| syllable | a single unit of a word |
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