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English 9 Poetry
Poetry vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Imagery | words or phrases that appeal to the senses |
| Simile | comparison between 2 unlike things using like or as |
| Metaphor | comparison is made between 2 unike things |
| Stanza | in a poem, a grouping of lines creating a "paragraph" |
| Meter | the count of syllables in a line |
| Onomatopoeia | Sound words (boom, buzz) |
| Personification | Giving human like attributes to non-human things (sun smiles down) |
| Rhyme Scheme | the pattern of rhyme at the end of the lines |
| alliteration | repetition of beginning sounds, usually consonants |
| assonance | repetition of vowel sounds |
| momometer | 1 foot |
| Iambic | stressed, unstressed |
| Iambic pentameter | most common meter for a sonnet |
| Dactylic | stresses, unstressed, unstressed |
| Haiku | 3 lines |
| Sonnet | 14 lines, regular rhyme and meter |
| free verse | no rhyme scheme or meter |
| blank verse | Iambic pentameter, no rhyme |