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Poetry Terms
20 vocabulary words for our Poetry Unit
Question | Answer |
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alliteration | the repetition of the same consonant sound |
assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds in several words or a poem |
cinquain | a poem with five lines |
couplet | two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme |
haiku | a poem with seventeen syllables |
metaphor | compares two unlike things without the use of specific connective words |
mood | state of feeling |
onomatopoeia | the use of words, which sound like what they mean |
palindrome | a word or sentence when reversed is the same |
poetry | writing that is in a certain form which makes someone have an emotional response through meaning, sound, and rhythm |
quatrain | a stanza or poem of four lines |
repetition | the use of words, sounds, or phrases again and again the use of words, sounds, or phrases again and again |
rhyme | a word that corresponds with another in terminal (end) sound, as pane and cane |
scheme | it is the pattern of rhymes in a poem |
shape | an outline or contour |
simile | creates a comparison by using a connective word, such as __like |
stanza | is a part or section of a poem |
syllable | a sound separated in a word |
theme | a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work |
voice | the person speaking in a poem |