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Poetry
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| tone | the attitude an author takes toward the audience, the subjects or the character (serious, sarcastic, silly) |
| alliteration | the repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of a several words in a line (Barshy ate bubble gum in Baltimore) |
| figurative language | tools that a poet can use like metaphor, simile, alliteration, personification or onomatopoeia to create a special effect |
| personification | When the poet gives an animal or object human qualities such as the ability to hear, feel, talk and make decisions (The flowers waltzed in a gentle breeze.) |
| onomatopoeia | the use of words that sound like the noises they describe (buzz) |
| repetition | a sound, word or phrase of a sentence used again and again |
| sensory imagery | language that appeals to sight, touch, taste, smell and/or the hearing of the audience |
| free verse | Poetry written without any rules, rhyme scheme, meter or form, Amanda Gorman -inauguration and Super Bowl |
| simile | comparing two things using like or as, (The whale is as big as a dump truck.) |
| narrative poem | a poem that tells a story ,has characters, setting, conflict and plot, usually a longer poem (The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere) |
| metaphor | a direct comparison between two things without using "like" or "as." The cats tongue was sandpaper. |
| rhyme | the repetition of similar sounds at the end of a line (He ate the bat and now is fat.) |
| poetry | carefully selected words to create a poem, playing with words |
| rhythm | the musical quality created by a pattern of beats or a series of stressed and unstressed syllables, could clap to it |
| voice | the character or perspective that is taken by the writer or poet (first person "I," second "You," or third person "he, she, it" |
| rhyme scheme | repeated pattern of rhyme found at the end of the line and labeled aa,bb,cc, etc |
| hyperbole | the obvious stretching of the truth, (She would never say that) |