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Poetry Terms

English I Honors

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Poetry Literary form that combines the precise meaning of words with their emotional associations.
Categories of Poetry Lyric- Like words to a song Narrative- Tells a story Epic- Heroic deeds of a protagonist
Figurative Language Not meant to be taken literally. Used to create vivid impressions between dissimilar things.
Comparing Two Unlike Things Analogies, Similes, Metaphors
Imagery a kind of figurative language that appeals to the senses: sight, sound, smell, touch and taste.
Personification gives human qualities to nonhuman things, such as animals.
Paradox is a statement that seems contradictory, but actually may be true
Alliteration repetition of the initial consonant sounds of words near one another in a line of poetry
Assonance repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words
Consonance repetition of consonants within nearby words in which the separating vowels differ
Onomotopeia the use of a word whose sounds imitates its meaning, such as buzz, sputter or crackle
Rhyme repetition of identical or similar sounds in stressed syllables of words
Rhythm the pattern created by the stressed and unstressed syllables of words
Sonnet a kind of lyric poem that expresses the feelings of a single speaker.
Created by: DMonsalve
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