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Poetry Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| lyric poem | a poem that expresses the feelings and emotions of the author |
| narrative poem | a poem that tells a story |
| alliteration | a repetition of a consonant sound at the beginning of two or more words |
| figurative language | writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally |
| irony | when what you expect is the opposite of reality |
| metaphor | a figure of speech that compares two unlike things- My stomach is a bottomless pit. |
| onomatopoeia | a word that imitates a sound |
| personification | giving a non-human thing a human characteristic |
| simile | a figure of speech that compares two unlike things using like or as. |
| stanza | a group of lines in poetry |
| oxymoron | a contradiction of terms |
| hyperbole | an exaggeration |
| acrostic poem | a poem in which certain letters in each line form a word or words. |
| rhyme | matching sounds at the ends of words |
| repetition | using an element of language more than once |
| rhythm | pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables |
| haiku | a three-line poem, usually about nature, where there are 5 syllables in the first line, 7 in the second line, and 5 in the third line |
| free verse poetry | a type of poetry that is not written in any rhythmical pattern; can be any length. |
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