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LiteraryTerms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The use of words to imitate natural sounds such as buzz or pop | onomatopoeia |
| The repetition of the same sound beginning several words in sequence | alliteration |
| A kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing is talked about as if it were human | personification |
| Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme. | What is free verse |
| Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter | blank verse |
| Repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines | refrain |
| Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme | couplet |
| One of two or more words that have the same or nearly identical meanings | synonym |
| One of two or more words that have opposite meanings | antonym |
| A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things, using a word such as like, as, resembles, or than. | simile |
| A play on the multiple meanings of a word | pun |
| The use of words, phrases, symbols, and ideas in such a way as to evoke mental images and sense impressions | figurative language |
| A group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit | stanza |
| The attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character | tone |
| A statement which seems to be a contradiction but reveals the truth | paradox |
| A figure of speech in which an address is made to an absent person or a punctuation mark is used to indicate the omission of letter(s | apostrophe |
| The use of a person, place, thing, or event that stands for itself and for something beyond itself as well | symbolism |
| Ordinary language people use in speaking or writing | prose |
| A Japanese form of poetry which consists of three unrhymed lines of five, seven and five syllables | haiku |
| A light or humorous verse form of five verses | limerick |
| A song that tells a story | ballad |
| Fourteen line lyric poem that is usually written in iambic pentameter and that has one of several rhyme schemes | sonnet |
| The apparent paradox achieved by the use of words which seem to contradict one another | oxymoron |
| nonfiction | writing that is true |
| fables | stories with talking animals that have a moral |
| recipe | a set of instructions for making something |
| fiction | writing that is made up |
| dictionary | book that tells what words mean |
| advertisement | a public notice published to get people's attention or to get them to buy something |
| almanac | a book that contains statistical information over a long period of time |
| repetition | the act of repeating something said or done |
| article | nonfiction piece of text usually found in newspapers or magazines |
| legends | folk tales full of people from history like Davy Crockett |
| fairy tales | stories with royalty |
| realistic fiction | a make believe story that could really happen |
| historical fiction | a make believe story which could have happened a long time ago based on historical facts |
| rhythm | the beat of a poem |
| folk tales | fiction stories that have been told for generations |
| poet | the writer of a poem |
| mood | the feeling you get from a piece of writing |
| poetry | writing that often has rhythm and rhyme |
| tall tales | folk tales full of exaggeration like Paul Bunyan |
| atlas | book of maps |
| biography | true story of a person's life written by someone else |
| autobiography | true story of a person's life written by the person |
| speaker | the person doing the talking in a poem |
| stanza | part of a poem; like a paragraph |
| novel | long fiction story |
| poem | a composition in verse |
| fantasy | make believe stories that contain magic or other things that couldn't happen in real life |
| moral | lesson in a fable or story |
| rhyme | words in a poem that sound alike |
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