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POETRY TERMS-FWN-JRS
POETRY TERMS- JRS.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| personification | figure of speech that gives human qualities to something not human |
| meter | the regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in each poetic line |
| assonance | the repetition of similar vowel sounds within non-rhyming words in a line of poetry (like low and ghost) |
| speaker | the voice that communicates to the reader in a poem |
| rhyme scheme | a regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem formed at the ends of lines--to describe it, one uses letters of the alphabet |
| consonance | the repetition of final consonant sounds in words within a line, such as fall and faithful |
| simile | A figure of speech that compares two apparently unlike things using like or as |
| alliteration | the repetition of initial consonant sounds at the beginnings of words within a line, like dance of dusky delight |
| imagery | very descriptive language that appeals to one or more of the five senses: sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell |
| metaphor | a figure of speech that compares apparently two unlike things without using like or as; it implies that one thing is another |
| internal rhyme | rhyme that occurs when rhyming words appear within the same line of poetry |
| approximate or slant rhyme | a rhyme that occurs when end rhymes are similar but not exact, like prove and glove |
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