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poetry terms*
poetry terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| alliteration | the repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words close together |
| allusion | a refferance to a person, place, or event from lituerure history |
| connotation | Feeling associated or connected with words |
| free verse | poetry with no required structure or rhyme pattern |
| imagery | language that appeals to the sences |
| onomatopia | use of words that sound like an action or the way that they represnet |
| rhythm | a musiacal quality produced by the repetion of stressed and unstressed syllables or the repetition of certain sounds |
| rhyme | nvjlr |
| refrain | a word or phrase or line repeated throughout a poem |
| stanza | a poem paragraph |
| couplet | two lines of a verse, usullay rhymed |
| tone | attitude the writer has towards there writing, mostly the subject of character |
| simile | a figure of speech comparing two things using like or as |
| metaphor | figure comparing two objects that would not normally be seen as similar |
| personification | giving human traits to nonhuman things |
| consonance | repation of a consonate sound usally at the ends of words or in the middle |
| poetry | rhythmic compressed langauge using figures of speech and imagery |
| symbol | a person place or thing that stands for something beyond its self |
| speaker | vioce talking in a poem or lit. work |
| literal language | writer says exactly what they mean, exackly what you need to know |
| figurative language | does not say exacly what they want you to understand |
| hyperbole | a wild expression |
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