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Poetry Techniques Ex
Poetry 'Techniques Exam Review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The pattern in which rhymes are arranged in a poem | rhyme scheme |
| Giving human qualities to animals, objects, or ideas | personification |
| The use of words that imitate sounds | Onomatapedia |
| Unrhymed iambic pentameter | blank verse |
| The beat of stresses in the stream of sound | rhythm |
| Repetition of vowel sounds | assonance |
| Reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art | allusions |
| Repetition of beginning consonant sounds | alliteration |
| The use of something concrete (i.e an object or character) to exploain or represent something else | symbol |
| Descriptive words that create pictures by details of sight, sound, taste, smell, touch, or movement | imagery |
| Central message or insight into life | theme |
| Repetition of cononant sounds anywhere within the word | consonance |
| Comparison using using" or "as" | simile |
| A poem's rhythmical pattern determined by stressed and unstressed syllables | meter |
| Comparison in which identity is actually given | metaphor |
| Similarity in the terminal (end) sound of words | rhyme |
| Words look as if they rhyme, but don't sound the same | slant rhyme |
| The voice inside the poem (like the narrator in a story) | speaker |
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