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poetry
review for poetry
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| using the letters of a word going down to make a poem with those lettters. Ex:E=excellent | acrostic |
| has two meanings besides just the obvious one. it is narrative | allegory |
| originally meant to be sung. Narrative folk songs that are comunicated orally between illiterate partly literate people | ballad |
| has five lines 1title 2two adj 3three verbs 4four feelings 5title | cinquain |
| long narrative poem that is exciting and serious with heroic charachters and action | epic |
| opposite of standard meaning of a word to make a special meaning | figurative |
| exaageration and wild and craziness of something used for serious, comic, or ironic effect | hyperbole (over statement) |
| to represent things or weird ideas usually visual pictures but also other senses | imagery |
| figure of speech when two unlike objects are idntified by how they are without asserting comparison | metaphor |
| the units of a stress line and how they are patterns | meter |
| the use of words to show the sounds they make | onomatopoeia |
| when you make random objects have personallities | personification |
| a short saying thats not really known but people know what it means | proverb |
| a play on words can be the same sound and have a different meaning | pun |
| when you do something over and over actions preformance production and presentation | repetition |
| reapeats similar sounds at the end of words | rhyme |
| when you make a picture out of words | shape or concrete |
| lyric poem with a single stanza of 14 iombic pentameter lines linked by a rhyme scheme | sonnet |
| repetition of vowel sounds followed by different constanet sounds ex:lake fake | assonance |
| repetition of final constanet sounds with different vowels Ex:born burn | consonance |
| a kind of humorous verse of five lines, in which the first, second, and fifth lines rhyme with each other, and the third and fourth lines, which are shorter, form a rhymed couplet. | limerick |
| figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in “cruel kindness” or “to make haste slowly.” ex: clean mess | oxymoron |
| a provincial, rural, or socially distinct variety of a language that differs from the standard language, especially when considered as substandard. way a person speaks | dialect |
| ex: kick the bucket Hold on to your pants | idiom |
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