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poetry vocab

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Alliteration   The repetition of same or similar consonant sounds in words that are close together  
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Pattern   a combination of the organization of lines rhyme schemes, stanzas, rhythm, and meter  
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Allusion   A reference to someone or something that is known from history, literature, religion, politics, sports, science, or some other branch of culture  
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Personification   A figure of speech that gives an object or animal human features  
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Context clues   Using words surrounding unknown words to determine their meaning  
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Couplet   Two consecutive lines of poetry that work together  
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Rereading   Gives the reader more than one chance to make sense of challenging text  
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Drawing conclusions   Use written cues to figure out something that is not directly stated  
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Rhyme/Rhyme scheme   The repetition of vowel sounds in accented syllables and all succeeding syllables. The pattern of rhyme in a poem is called a rhyme scheme  
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Free verse   Poetry that does not follow a pattern  
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Haiku   Traditional Japanese poetry that has three lines with the first and last line consisting of five syllables and the second having seven syllables.  
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Rhyme   A rise and fall of the voice produced by the alternation of stressed and unstressed syllables in language  
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Hyperbole   A figure of speech that uses incredible exaggeration or overstatement  
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Setting   the location of the poem  
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Simile   a comparison using like or as  
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Imagery   i method of using words that will make the reader "see" what the author writes  
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Sonnet   The sonnet is a fourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter, which employ one of several rhyme schemes and adhere to a tightly structured thematic organization.  
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Irony   the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.  
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Stanza   a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse.  
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Speaker   a person who speaks.  
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Meaning   what is intended to be, or actually is, expressed or indicated; signification; import:  
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Summarizing   Summarizing teaches students how to discern the most important ideas in a text, how to ignore irrelevant information, and how to integrate the central ideas in a meaningful way. Teaching students to summarize improves their memory for what is read.  
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Metaphor   a comparison that doesn't use like or as  
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Symbols   a mark or character used as a conventional representation of an object, function, or process, e.g., the letter or letters standing for a chemical element or a character in musical notation.  
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Mood   a feeling the reader has  
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Theme   the message of the story  
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Onomatopoeia   the formation of a word, as cuckoo, meow, honk, or boom, by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent.  
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Tone   the feeling the author has  
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