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Finney Poem Elements
Poetry Terms and Definitions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| form | the way a poem looks on the page |
| lines | sentences or groups of words that make up a stanza in a poem |
| stanza | groups of lines in a poem; poetry paragraphs |
| speaker | the voice of a poem |
| dialect | a form of language spoken in a certain place by a certain group of people |
| idiom | a descriptive expression that means something different than the combination of words that make it up |
| rhyme | repetition of similar sounds at the ends of words |
| rhythm | the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in each line; the "beat" of the poem |
| repetition | writing the same sounds, words, phrases, or lines over and over again |
| alliteration | repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words |
| onomatopoeia | the use of words whose sounds suggest their meanings |
| imagery | language that appears to the reader's five senses; picturing the poem in your head as you read |
| simile | comparing things using like or as |
| metaphor | comparing thing without using like or as |
| analogy | comparison between two things that are not similar in order to show ways in which they might be similar |
| personification | giving human qualities to nonhuman things |
| symbol | something that stands for something else |
| sound | the way the reader hears a poem |
| meter | pattern of accented & unaccented syllables; creates the rhythm of the poem |
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