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Poetry Terms 1.0
Question | Answer |
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Alliteration | A repetition of similar consonant sound. |
Connotation | The feelings and association that a word suggests |
Description | writing that creates a clear image of something |
Free Verse | poetry without a regular meter or a rhyme scheme |
imagery | language that appeals to the senses |
metaphor | comparing two things without using "like" or "as" |
onomatopeia | the use of words whose sounds echo their sense |
personification | figurative language where nonliving or nonhuman thing are talked about as if they were living or human. |
Poetry | A kind of rhythmic, compressed language that uses figures of speech and imagery designed to appeal to emotion and imagination |
refrain | a group of words repeated at intervals in a poem, song, or speech |
rhyme | the repetition of accented vowel sounds or sounds following them in woods close together |
rhythm | a musical quality produced by the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables by the repetition of certain other sounds. |
simile | the comparison of two things using "like" or "as" |
speaker | the voice talking in a a poem |
stanza | in a poem a group of consecutive lines that form a single unit |
symbol | a person, place, or thing or an event that has its own meaning and stands for something beyond itself as well |
tone | the mood of the song |