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Poetry Terms
Question | Answer |
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Uses each letter in a word going down to create a poem. | acrostic |
Has a second meaning along with the story. | allegory |
Meant to be sung. | ballad |
Five lines. | cinquain |
A long poem on a serious subject involving heros. | epic |
Words to achieve special meaning or affect. | figurative language |
An overstatement. Exageration of possibility ir fact. | hyperbole |
To represent an image. To suggest visual picture. | imagery |
Two unlike objects are compared without like or as. | metaphor |
A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. | meter |
Words whose sounds express meanings. | onomatopoeia |
Giving inanimate objects human characteristics. | personification |
A short popular saying. | proverb |
A play on words. (Think Carl Azuz) | pun |
Repeating. | repetition |
Words that sound alike. | rhyme |
Words formed in the image the words are discribing. | shape/concrete |
A single stanza. 14 lines. (Think Shakespeare) | sonnet |