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Poetry Vocab.
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Alliteration | the repitition of words that begin with the same letter |
| Allusion | reference to things that are well known |
| Hyperbole | an overexageration |
| Irony | the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite or its literal meaning |
| Metaphor | direct identification of unlike things |
| Onomatopoeia | (Ono-mato-poe-ia) the making of words to imitate the sounds of an action/noise |
| Personification | to give humanlike qualities to unhumanlike things |
| Pun | the humorous use of a word to emphasize its different meanings |
| Rhyme | identity in sound of some part especially in the end of words or lines of a verse |
| Simile | a comparison using like/as/then to compare unlike things |