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Creative Writing II
poetry terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| figurative language | figure of speech, not meant to be taken literally. |
| personification | giving nonhuman things human qualities |
| onomatopoeia | words that sound like their meaning |
| pun | HORRIBLE |
| rhythm | alternation of stressed and unstressed syllables |
| atmosphere | mood created by imagery and diction and tone |
| rhyme | repitition of vowel and consonent sounds at the end of a word |
| free verse | poetry with no defined pattern or rhyme scheme |
| internal rhyme | rhyme within a line (lol) |
| allegory | metaphorical story |
| slant rhyme | doesn't quite work |
| denotation | opposite of connation. the literal definition of a word, as opposed to its emotional meaning. |
| end rhyme | rhyme at the end of a line |
| alliteration | repitition of beginning consonants |
| assonance | repition of vowel sounds (high flier) |
| parallelism | repitition of gramatical structure |
| refrain | repeated lines at the end of a phrase |
| imagery | words used to describe a physical thingy |
| tone | overall feeling of a work |
| connotation | opposite of denotation. The emotional value attached to a word |
| similie | comparison using like or as |
| metaphor | equating to things to get a point across |