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Poetry/Drama
poetry and drama words
| poetry | Definition |
|---|---|
| poetry | artistic writing that creates word pictures |
| prose | ordinary writing in sentences |
| meter | a rhythmic pattern of word sounds |
| Rhyme | words that sound the same |
| free verse | words at the end of poetry lines that do not rhyme |
| Rhyme scheme | the pattern of the rhyme in a poem |
| personification | something non-human doing something only a human can do |
| alliteration | the repetition of the same sounds at the beginning of the word |
| hyperbole | extreme exaggeration |
| onomatopoeia | word that imiate the sounds that they display |
| metaphor | a compaison without using like or as |
| simile | a comparison using like or as |
| stanza | a paragraph in a poem |
| end rhyme | last word in each line ends with the same sound |
| allusion | a brief reference to something or someone |
| couplet | two lines that rhyme |
| haiku | a single subject poem that doesn't rhyme |
| dialogue | lines spoken by actors in a script |
| Drama | A story written to be performed by actors; a play |
| Act | A major section of a play made by several sections of scenes |
| scene | A subdivision of a act |
| Script | The written text in a play |
Created by:
holloway2002
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