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