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SGCS poetic terms

SGCS poetic terms and definitions 6th grade By dwight

termdefinitionexample
aliteration The same repetitive sound for each word “on scrolls of silver snowy sentences” (Hart Crane)
Onomatopeia a word that sounds like that action it means crash boom bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Personification giving person like qualitys to a unhuman thing the trees groaned in the wind
Metaphor a comparison of two unlike things with out using, like, or as, The ship is a woman
Assonance The relatively close juxtaposition of the same or similar vowel sounds, but with different end consonants in a line or passage, thus a vowel rhyme, as in the words date and fade
Free Verse a type of poetry that has no rules the man a sound like a drum roll it ha coming closer and closerhe saw a blur of yellow and took his last shuddering breath
Iambic Pentameter Unstresed sylable followed by stressed for five lines and HE was WALKing
Similie A figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared, often in a phrase introduced by like or as, “How like the winter hath my absence been” or “So are you to my thoughts as food to life” (Shakespeare).
limerick A light humorous, nonsensical, or bawdy verse of five anapestic lines usually with the rhyme scheme aabba. There was a young lady, Amanda, Whose Ballades Lyriques were quite fin de Si[`e]cle, I deem But her Journal Intime Was what sent her papa to Uganda.
Oxymorron A rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined the truthfull politician
Irony stating something by saying another quite different thing, sometimes its opposite. as when a doctor might say to his patient, " the bad news is that the operation was successful.
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