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Poetry Terms to Know
Study these vocabulary words to prepare for EOG's!
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| alliteration | repetition of initial consonant sounds |
| free verse | lines with no pattern, structure or rhyme |
| imagery | descriptive or figurative language that creates word pictures |
| hyperbole | an exaggeration |
| tone | the way an author feels about his or her topic |
| mood | the feeling of the selection,the way the author wants the reader to feel |
| irony | where a writer says one thing while meaning another |
| theme | the moral or lesson about life that a selection teaches |
| onomatopoeia | words that imitate the sounds associated with the words or objects |
| personification | giving an non-human thing human characteristics |
| stanza | a group of lines in a poem |
| rhyme | repetition of ending sounds in words |
| sensory words | language that appeals to the senses (smell, sight, sounds) |
| poet | the author of a poem |
| metaphor | compares two unlike objects |
| simile | compares objects using like or as |