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Poetic Devices+Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Alliteration | Repetition of similar consonant sounds (Peter piper picked a pack... ) |
| Free verse | Poetry without a rhyme scheme |
| Imagery | Language that appeals to the senses |
| Metaphor | An imaginative companion between two unlike things without using like or as |
| Extended metaphor | A metaphor that is developed or extended through several lines of writing or even through an entire poem |
| Onomatopoeia | the use of words whose sounds echo their sense (buzz, rustle, boom, tick tock, tweet, or bark) |
| Personification | A figure of speech in which a nonhuman of nonliving thing or quality has humanlike characteristics |
| Refrain | A group of words repeated at intervals in a poem, song, or speech |
| Rhyme | The repetition of accented vowel sounds following them in words close together in a poem (mean and screen ) (crumble and tumble) |
| Rhythm | A musical quality produced by the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables or by the repetition of certain other sound patterns |
| Simile | The comparison between two unlike things using a word such as like, as, than, or resembles |
| Speaker | The voice talking in a poem |
| Stanza | In a poem a group of consecutive lines that forms a single unit |
| Symbol | A noun that has its own meaning and stands for something beyond itself as well. |
| Tone | The attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character |
| Narrative Poem | Tells a story (Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout) |
| Lyric Poem | Expresses an emotion (I ask my mother to sing) |
| Meter |
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