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6th Grade Poetry

Vocabulary Terms you need to know!

QuestionAnswer
Alliteration The practice of beginning several consecutive or neighboring words with the same sound
Hyperbole A deliberate, extravagant, and often outrageous exaggeration
Imagery consists of words or phrases a writer uses to represent people, objects, actions, feelings, and ideas descriptively by appealing to the senses
Metaphor a comparison of two unlike things not using like or as
onomatopoeia the use of words that mimic the sounds that they describe
Personification A kind of metaphor that gives inanimate objects or abstract ideas human characteristics
Simile A comparison of two different things or ideas through the use of the words like or as
Rhyme Is the repetition of sounds in two or more words or phrases that appear close to each other in a poem
End Rhyme Rhyme that occurs at the end of lines
Internal Rhyme Rhyme that occurs within a line
Slant Rhyme Approximate rhyme
Repetition Is the deliberate use of any element of language more than once- sound, word, phrase sentence, grammatical, or rhythmical pattern
Sound Devices Are stylistic techniques that convey meaning through sound- assonance, consonance, rhyme, alliteration, and onomatopoeia
Symbolism Is any object, person, place, or action that has both a meaning in itself and that stands for something larger than itself
Tone The writer or speaker's attitude toward a subject, character, or audience, and it is conveyed through the author's choice of words and detail
Mood Is the atmosphere or predominant emotion in a literary work
Created by: lindawilley
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