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Poetry Stack
| Term | Definition | Example |
|---|---|---|
| 2. Allusion | A reference to someone or something that in know from history, literature, religion, politics, sports, science, or some other branch of culture | |
| 3. Context Clues | using words surrounding unknown words to determine their meaning | |
| 4. Couplet | Two consecutive lines of poetry that work together | |
| 5. Drawing Conclusions | Use written cues to figure out something that is not directly stated | |
| 6. Free Verse | Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme | |
| 7. Haiku | Presents a vivid picture and the poet's impression, sometimes with suggestions of spiritual insight . The traditional haiku is three lines long : the first line is five syllables, the second line is seven syllables, the third line is five syllables | |
| 8. Hyperbole | A figure of speech that uses incredible exaggeration, or overstatement, for effect | I could eat a thousand hamburgers right now |
| 9. Imagery | The use of language to evoke a picture or a concrete sensation of a noun, or an experience | |
| 10. Inferring | Giving a logical guess based on the facts or evidence presented using prior knowledge to help "read between the lines" | |
| 11. Irony | In general, it is the difference between the way something appears and what is actually there | |
| 12. Meaning | What is the poem about ? | |
| 13. Metaphor | A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without the use of like or as | Education is a life raft in the ocean of America |
| 14. Mood | The feeling created in the reader by the poem or story | |
| 15. Onomatopoeia | The use of a word whose sound imitates or suggest its meaning | Boom! Smash! Pow! Pssst. Ssshh! |
| 16. Pattern | ||
| 17. Personification | ||
| 18. Rereading | ||
| 19. Rhyme | ||
| 20. Rhyme Scheme | ||
| 21. Rhythm | ||
| 22. Setting | ||
| 23. Simile | ||
| 24. Sonnet | ||
| 25. Speaker | ||
| 26. Stanza | ||
| 27. Summarizing | ||
| 28. Symbols | ||
| 29. Theme | The central message or insight into life through the poem | |
| 30. Tone | The attitude a writer takes toward the subject of a work, the characters in it, or the audience | |
| 1. Alleration | The repetition of the same or similar consonant in words that are close together | The sneaky, slippery snake |
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