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Poetry vocabulary
Poetry words
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Figurative Language | an expression that is not to be taken literally |
| metaphor | comparing two unlike things by saying one is the other. |
| personification | giving human traits to non-humans |
| simile | comparing two unlike things using like or as |
| poet | the author of a poem |
| line | a group of words arranged in a row |
| speaker | the narrator of a poem |
| stanza | lines grouped together in a poem |
| imagery | visually descriptive images |
| repetition | poets use this technique to emphasize something |
| sensory language | words that appeal to the reader's sense of sight, touch, taste, hearing, smell |