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Poem Unit Vocabulary
12 Poem Types and their vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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rhythm | a beat in the writing |
rhyme | when two words sound alike |
stanza | a section of words in a poem |
limerick | a five lined humorous poem with a distinct rhythm and rhyme pattern |
simile | a comparison between two unlike things using like or as |
metaphor | a comparison between two unlike things without using like or as |
extended simile | a comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout an entire poem |
imagery | a representation of anything we can see, hear, taste, or smell |
personification | when a nonhuman thing or quality is talked about as if it were human |
haiku | a 3 line non-rhyming poem that has syllables which number 5-7-5 |
alliteration | the repetition of consonant sounds |
assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds |
onomatopoeia | using a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning |
free verse | uses no regular meter or rhyme but instead imitates the natural rhythms of speech |
narrative peotry | peotry that tells a story and has a plot |
ballad | a type of narrative poem that is usually songlike since it has a regualr rhythm and pattern |
lyric peotry | peotry that expresses a speaker's emotions or thoughts and does not tell a story |