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poetry term s
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| figurative language | is writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally |
| simile | is a figure of speech that uses like or as to make a direct between two unlike things |
| metaphor | is a figure of speech in which something is described as though it were something else |
| personification | is were a nonhuman thing is given human characteristics |
| symbol | is anything that stands for or represents something else |
| alliteration | is the repetition of initial consent sound |
| repetition | is the use, more than once, of any element of language |
| assonance | is the repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants in stressed syllables, as in blade and maze |
| narrative poetry | is the use of words that imitate sounds |
| haiku | a three-line japanese form of a poem |
| free verse | poetry not written in a regular, rhythmical pattern or meter |
| ballads | are song like poems that tell a story, often dealing with adventure and romance |
| concrete poetry | is one with a shape that suggest its subject |
| limericks | is a humorous, rhyming, five-line poem with a specific meter and rhyme |
| rhyming couplets | are pairs of rhyming lines, usually of the same meter and length |
| rhythm | the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a spoken or written language |
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