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Poetry Terms_Gray
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Alliteration | repetition of consonant sounds |
| Assonance | repetition of vowel sounds (not rhyming) (ex: doll, cloth) |
| Blank Verse | unrhymed poetry |
| Consonance | sounds of two words match (not rhyming) (ex: wind, sound) |
| End Rhyme | rhyme that happens at the ends of lines in poetry |
| Figurative Language | writing meant to be understood imaginatively instead of literally |
| Free Verse | poetry that does not use regular rhyme, meter, or stanza division |
| Hyperbole | overstatement, or exaggeration, used for dramatic effect |
| Internal Rhyme | rhyme that happens within lines of poetry |
| Metaphor & Extended Metaphor | direct comparison; can be spread across several lines |
| Meter | rhythmic pattern in poetry |
| Onomatopoeia | use of words or phrases that sound like the thing to which they refer |
| Rhyme | repetition of sounds in words |
| Rhythm | pattern of beats, or stresses, in a line of poetry |
| Slant Rhyme | half-rhyme, rhyme sort of works but doesn’t |
| Speaker of poem | the one who the poem is about |
| Stanza | group of lines in a poem |