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Poetry Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 words by 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 words |
| 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 | author's attitude toward his or her work |
| speaker | the perspective from which the poem is told |
| stanza | a paragraph in poetry |