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Poetry Terms
English
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Mood | Feeling, emotion, or atmosphere of a poem |
| Theme | author's purpose or message |
| Simile | comparison using like or as |
| Metaphor | comparison not using like or as |
| Personification | giving inanimate objects human-like characteristics |
| Hyperbole | exaggeration |
| Imagery | painting a picture with workds by using appealing to the five senses |
| Denotation | Dictionary definition of a word |
| connotation | implied meaning of a word |
| Diction | word choice |
| Limerick | short, funny poem with a rhyme scheme of AABBA |
| Ballad | poem about a legendary or historical person or event with a rhyme scheme of ABCB |
| Free Verse | Non Rhyming poetry |
| Figurative | when words or phrases represent something other than the literal |
| Literal | actual or real |
| Rhyme scheme | Pattern of rhymes at the end of lines |
| Blank Verse | non rhyming poetry written in iambic pentameter |
| Alliteration | repetition of initial consonant sounds at the beginning of word |
| Assonance | Repetition of vowel sounds within non rhyming words |
| Consonance | Repetition of consonant sounds within or at the end of non rhyming words |
| onomatopoeia | when a word is a sound |
| Tone | Authors attitude toward their work |
| Speaker | The perspective from which the poem is told |
| stanza | a paragraph in poetry |