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English Poetry Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| simile | a compariaon using like or as |
| metaphor | a comparisen not using like or as |
| personification | giving human qualities to a non human thing |
| onomonapia | words that sound like sounds |
| oxymoron | two oppisite ideas are joined to create an effect |
| hyperbole | extreme exaderation to make a point |
| allusion | breif and indirect referance to a person, place thing |
| alliteration | two or more words share same beggening sound |
| repetition | somthing reapeated |
| irony | an unexpacted twist |
| sybolism | representation of one thing for another using a thingy |
| imagry | description using senses |
| tone | an attitude of the writer twoard a subject |
| mood | evokes certain feelings or vibes in readers through words or descriptions: the atmosphere |
| rhyme | words that make the same sound |
| stanza | a group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit |
| theme | life lesson |