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poetry
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| poetry | a type of writing that usually uses carefully chosen words to express ideas. |
| simile | comparison using like or as |
| metaphor | comparison of things not using like or as |
| personification | giving human traits to non-human things |
| hyperbole | exaggerated for effect |
| irony | a rhetorical device involving contradictions |
| imagery | uses descriptive language to create mental pictures that appeal to the senses |
| symbolism | using objects, colors, or ideas to represent deeper meanings beyond the literal |
| idiom | a figure of speech in which the literal meaning does not match the figurative meaning |
| oxymoron | the words that are opposite in meaning, but are being used together |
| allusion | a reference to a person, event, or literary work outside the oem |
| denotation | the dictionary definition of a word |
| connotation | the implied feeling associated with a word or phrase, positive or negative |