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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Mood | Feeling, emotion, or atmosphere of a poem |
| Theme | Author's purpose or message |
| Simile | Comparison using like or as |
| Metaphor | Comparison not using like or as |
| Personification | Giving inanimate objects human-like characteristics |
| Hyperbole | Exaggeration |
| Imagery | Painting a picture with words by appealing to the five senses |
| Denotation | Dictionary definition of a word |
| Connotation | Implied meaning of a word |
| Diction | Word choice |
| Limerick | Short, funny poem with a rhyme scheme of AABBA |
| Ballad | Poem about a legendary and/or historical person or event with rhyme scheme of ABCB |
| Free Verse | Non-rhyming poetry |
| Figurative | When words or phrases represent something other than the literal |
| Literal | Actual or real |
| Rhyme Scheme | Pattern of rhymes at the end of lines |
| Blank Verse | Non-rhyming poetry written in iambic pentameter |
| Iambic Pentameter | A metrical line commonly used in poetry and dramatic verse, consisting of five iambic feet, where an iamb is defined as an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. |
| Alliteration | Repetition of initial consonant sounds within or at the end of non-rhyming words |
| Assonance | Repetition of vowel sounds within non-rhyming words |
| Onomatopoeia | When a word is a sound |
| Tone | Author's attitude toward his or her work |
| Speaker | The perspective from which the poem is told |
| Stanza | A paragraph in poetry |