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Poetry terms

QuestionAnswer
Alliteration Repetition of a similar consonant sound.
Connotation The feelings and associations that a word suggests.
Description The kind of writing that creates a clear image of something by using details or senses.
Free verse Poetry without a regular meter or rhyme scheme.
Imagery Language that appeals to the senses.
Metaphor A comparison made without using the words like or as.
Extended metaphor A metaphor that is developed or extended through several lines or the whole poem.
Onomatopoeia The use of words who's sounds echo their senses.
Personification A non-human given human-like qualities.
Poetry A kind of rhythmic compressed language that uses figures of speech and imagery designed to appeal to emotion/imagination.
Refrain A group of words repeated at intervals a poem, song, or speech.
Rhyme The repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sonds following them in words close together.
Rythm A musical quality produced by the repetition of stressed and unstressed sylables or by the repition of sounds or patterns.
Similie A comparison using like or as.
Speaker The voice in a poem
Stanza A group of consecutive lines that form a single unit.
Symbol Something that has it's own meaning.
Tone The attitude in the poem.
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