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Poetry defintions
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| poetry | a kind of rhythmic, compresssed language that uses figures of speech and imagery to appeal to emotion and imagination. |
| end rhym | rhymes at the end of lines. |
| internal rhyme | rhymes within lines |
| refrain | a repeated word,phrase,line or group of lines in a poem or song or even a speech. |
| rhyme scheme | the pattern of rhyming sounds at the end of lines in a poem. |
| alliteration | repeating beginning consonant sounds |
| stanza | in a poem, a group of lines that form a unit-similar to a paragraph. |
| simile | comparison of 2 things using like or as. |
| metaphor | comparison of 2 things without using like of as. |
| personification | descibing non-human things giving those things human characteristics |
| onomatopoeia | use of words that imitate the sounds they descirbe. |