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POETRY TERMS- SENIORS

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Definition
personification   show
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speaker   show
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show a figure of speech that compares two apparently unlike things using like or as  
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metaphor   show
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meter   show
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show a regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem formed at the ends of the lines--to describe it one uses a letter of the alphabet to represent each rhyming sound  
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show the repetition of beginning consonant sounds (like silly Sally or dusk of impending death)  
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internal rhyme   show
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show the repetition of similar vowel sounds within non-rhyming words like low and ghost  
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show the repetition of consonant sounds in words within a line, like fall and faithful  
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show descriptive language that appeals to one or more of the five senses--sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell.  
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show a rhyme that occurs when end rhymes are similar, but not exact, as in prove and glove  
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show the use of words that imitate sound, like boom or swish.  
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show when the speaker addresses an absent person as if present or addresses a a personified quality or object  
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show a concrete object that represents an abstract ideal  
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show a pause or sudden stop in a line of poetry  
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show the running over of a sentence or thought from one line to another  
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show poetry that does not have regular meter or rhyme scheme  
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Lyric   show
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narrative   show
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