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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| genre | category or type of literature |
| haiku | 3-line verse form |
| hyperbole | deliberate exaggeration or overstatement |
| iamb | foot with one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable, as in the word again |
| image | word or phrase that appeals to one or more of the 5 senses |
| imagery | descriptive or figurative language used in literature to create word pics for readers |
| indirect characterizan | showing a character's personality through his or her actions, thoughts, feelings, words, and appearance or through another character's observations and reactions |
| irony | literary techniques that portray differences between appearance and reality, expectation and result, or meaning and intention |
| legend | widely told story about the past that may or may not have a foundation in fact |
| literal language | uses words in their ordinary senses |
| lyric poem | musical verse that expresses observation and feelings of a single speaker |
| metaphor | figure of speech in which one thing is spoken as though it were something else |
| meter | poem is its rhythmical pattern |