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What is a line in poetry? a fundamental unit in poetry.
What is a stanza in poetry? a grouping of lines that forms the main unit in a poem.
What is a rhyme in poetry? the correspondence of sounds in words or lines of verse.
What is a rhyme scheme in poetry? the pattern of rhymes falling at the ends of a poem’s lines.
What is alliteration in poetry? the repetition of consonant sounds, particularly at the beginnings of words.
What is imagery in poetry? language in a poem representing a sensory experience, including visual, auditory, olfactory, tactile, and gustatory.
What is symbolism in poetry? an object or action that stands for something beyond itself.
What is irony in poetry? a rhetorical device involving contradictions of expectation or knowledge and divided into three primary types: verbal, situational, and dramatic.
What is a connotation in poetry? - the implied or suggested meaning (FEELING) associated with a word or phrase.
What is denotation in poetry? the dictionary meaning of a word.
What is repetition in poetry? the poetic technique of repeating the same word or phrase multiple times within a poem or work.
What is a simile in poetry? comparison of two unlike things using like or as
What is a metaphor in poetry? comparison of two unlike things NOT using like or as
What is a hyperbole in poetry? an exaggeration
What is personification in poetry? giving human characteristics to NONHUMAN things
What is an idiom in poetry? A figure of speech in which the literal meaning does not match the figurative meaning.
What is an oxymoron in poetry? two words that are opposite in meaning used together.
What is onomatopoeia in poetry? the use of language that sounds like the thing or action it describes.
What is an allusion in poetry? a reference to a person, event, or literary work outside the poem.
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