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vocabulary words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| alliteration | repetition of consonant sounds in words that are close together |
| prose | writing that isn't poetry |
| Poetry | a kind of rhythmic compressed language that uses figures of speech and images that appeal to emotion and imagination |
| Short Stories | Short works of Fiction which can generally be read in one sitting. Unlike novels which may have several main characters and several intertwining plots and conflicts one main character who has a basic conflict |
| vignettes | Short short stories |
| conflict | struggle between opposing forces |
| stanzas | Groups of lines in a poem |
| figures of speech | Language that helps make connection between seemingly unlike things |
| Meter | Regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables |
| Free verse | Poetry that does not have a regular meter or pattern of stresses and unstressed syllables |
| Onomatopoeia | The Use of words with sounds that echo what they mean |