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Poetry Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is a line in Poetry? | A fundamental unit in Poetry |
| What is a Stanza? | Grouping of lines that forms the main unit in a poem. |
| What is a Rhyme? | The correspondence of sounds in words or lines of verse. |
| What is a Rhyme Scheme? | The pattern of rhymes falling at the ends of a poem’s lines. |
| What is an Alliteration? | The repetition of consonant sounds, particularly at the beginnings of words. |
| What is Imagery? | Language in a poem representing a sensory experience, including visual, auditory, olfactory, tactile, and gustatory. |
| What is Symbolism? | An object or action that stands for something beyond itself. |
| What is Irony? | A rhetorical device involving contradictions of expectation or knowledge and divided into three primary types: verbal, situational, and dramatic. |
| What is Connotation? | The implied or suggested meaning (FEELING) associated with a word or phrase. |
| What is Denotation? | The dictionary meaning of a word. |
| What is Repetition? | The poetic technique of repeating the same word or phrase multiple times within a poem or work. |
| What is a Simile? | The comparison of two unlike things using like or as. |
| What is a Metaphor? | Comparison of two unlike things NOT using like or as |
| What is a Hyperbole? | An exaggeration |
| What is Personification? | Giving human characteristics to NONHUMAN things |
| What is an Idiom? | A figure of speech in which the literal meaning does not match the figurative meaning. |
| What is an Oxymoron? | Two words that are opposite in meaning used together. |
| What is Onomonopia? | The use of language that sounds like the thing or action it describes. |
| What is an Allusion? | A reference to a person, event, or literary work outside the poem. |