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Grade 7 poetry terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| rhythm | the "beat" of a poem |
| imagery | creating word pictures with sensory details |
| metaphor | compares two unlike things WITHOUT using "like" or "as" |
| similie | compares two unlike things USING the words "like" or "as" |
| personification | giving human traits to something nonhuman |
| figurative language | words that mean more than their ordinary meaning |
| theme | the message about life |
| stanza | a unit of poetry, like a paragraph in a short story |
| free verse | poetry with no rhyme or rhythm |
| repetition | the repeating of a word or phrase |
| onomatopoeia | sound words |
| hyperbole | the use of exaggeration to get a laugh or make a point |
| alliteration | repeating the same sound at the BEGINNING of words |
| rhyme scheme | repeating the same sound at the ends of lines (example: aabba) |