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Poetry Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Stanza | group of lines that break up a poem |
| Alliteration | repeating specific sounds in two or more words |
| Rhyme | repeating specific sounds |
| Simile | comparing using like or as |
| Metaphor | comparing |
| Personification | giving a non-human, human-like qualities |
| Lyric poetry | a short poem; usually written in first person POV |
| Narrative poetry | a poem that tells a story, longer than lyric because of characters and plot. |
| Dramatic poetry | a narrative poem of a person in a specific situation. |
| Imagery | language that appeals to the senses |
| Symbol | when a person, place, thing, or event has a meaning itself, and also represents something else |
| Allusion | a reference in a poem to a person, place, or thingin history or in another work of literature |
| End weight | |
| Tone | |
| Assonance | repeated vowel sounds in a line or lines in poetry |
| Consonance | repeated sounds can be anywhere in the words |
| Repetition | |
| Onomatopoeia | words that imitate the sound they are naming |