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poetry terms

terms of poety

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what is an acrostic uses each letter in a word going down to create a poem
what is an allegory refers to an extended narrative which refers to the characters and actions and sometimes the setting
what is a ballad a poem that was origionally meant to be sung
what is a five lined poem that is a title, description of title, action, feeling, and title again cinquain
what is an epic a long narrative poem on a serious subject of action involving heroic creatures
what is a lanuage that makes use of certain figures of speech or tropes figurative language
what is a extravogent egsaturation of a factor possibility hyperbole
what is imagery? the use of language to represent things, actions, or abstract ideas descriptivly
what is a figure of speech in which two unlike objects are compared by identification or by substitution of one for the other metaphor
what is a meter the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables or units of stress pattern
what is a use of words whose sounds seem to express or reinforce their meanings onomatopoeia
what is personification giving human qualities to inanimate objects
what is a short popular saying usually of unknown or ancient origen proverb
what is a pun a play on words indenticle in sound
what does it mean if you repeat words over and over repetition
what is rhyme repetition of words with similar sounds
what is a concrete poem placement of words on the page so that it contains an image
what is a lyric poem consisting of a single stanza of 14 iambic pentameter lines linked by an intricate rhyme scheme a sonnet
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