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poetry unit 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Imagery | Language that appeals to one or more of the five senses: sight, hearing, taste, touch, and smell. For example, this image—“the fish’s slippery, shiny scales”—appeals to the senses of sight and touch. The words help us to picture the fish and to imagine ho |
| Figurative language | A word or phrase that creates an imaginative compari- son. Figurative language is not meant to be taken literally. There are several types of figures of speech. |
| • A simile | compares two unlike things by using a word such as like or as: “The many-colored fish is like a rainbow.” |
| A metaphor | compares two unlike things without using a word such as like or as. “The fish is a rainbow.” |
| Personification | is a type of metaphor in which an object, animal, or idea is talked about as if it were human: “The fish smiles happily.” |
| Rhyme | The repetition of the sound of the stressed vowel and the rest of the word (thinking, linking) |
| approximate rhyme | Words that have approximate rhyme repeat some sounds but are not exact echoes (mean, fine). |
| Most rhymes | called end rhymes_come at the end of lines: “Where in this book / Do you think I should look?” |
| Some rhymes | called internal rhymes_occur within a line of poetry: “I set my hat on the mat.” |
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