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Vocabulary # 8

Reading

TermDefinition
Poetry writing that usually creates an emotional response through meaning, sound, and rhythm
Rhythm the beat of a poem
Rhyme words that have the same ending sound
Rhyme Scheme a pattern of rhyming words usually at the end lines in a poem
Refrain a word or phrase repeated in a poem
Stanza a group of lines that form a unit of a poem (like paragraphs)
Free Verse a poem without a specific pattern or structure
Line the smallest unit of a poem (like sentences)
Line Breaks where the poet chooses to end on line and start a new one; usually to emphasize something
Form the structure or organization of a written work
Present Tense refers to action that is happening now
Past Tense shows action that has already occurred
Simile comparison of two things using like, as, or than
Hyperbole over exaggeration
Alliteration repetition of the beginning sounds of words
Metaphor comparison of two things by suggesting one thing is another thing
Personification Giving human characteristics to nonhuman things
Onomatopoeia sound words
Idiom a well-known phrase that means something different than the actual meaning of the individual words
Tele far
Bene good/well
Capit head
Strange previously unknown
solitary alone
Popular Reading sets

 



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