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Poetry Terms
Literary Terms For Poetry
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| alliteration | repetition of similar consonant sound |
| connotation | the feelings and associations that a word suggests |
| description | the kind of writing that creates a clear image of something, usually by using details that appeals to one another senses |
| free verse | poetry without a regular meter or a rhyme scheme |
| imagery | language that appeals to the to the senses |
| metaphor | comparison without using like or as |
| extended metaphor | a metaphor is developed of extended through several lines of writing or even throughout an entire poem |
| onomatopoeia | the use of words whose sounds echo their senses |
| personification | non human object given human characteristics |
| 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 an accented vowel sounds and all the sounds following them |
| rhythm | a musical quality produced by the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables |
| simile | a comparison using like or as |
| speaker | the voice talking a poem |
| stanza | in a poem a group of consecutive line that forms a single unit |
| symbol | a noun that has it's own meaning and stands for something beyond it's self as well |
| tone | the attitude that a writer takes toward the audience, subject or character |
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