Poetry Terms
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| show | The repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds in words that are close together. Ex: The sneaky, slippery snake.
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| Allusion | show 🗑
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| show | Using words surrounding unknown words to determine their meaning.
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| show | Presents a vivid picture and the poet's impression,sometimes with suggestions of spiritual insight. The traditional haiku is three lines long:the first time is five syllables,the second line is seven syllables, and the third line is five syllables.
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| show | Giving a logical guess based on the facts or evidence presented using prior knowledge to help "read between the line."
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| show | A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things WITHOUT the use of LIKE or AS.
Ex: Education is a life raft in the ocean of America.
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| show | A combination of the organization of lines,rhyme schemes,stanzas,rhythm, and meter. ( There are an innumerable variety of patterns in poetry.)
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| show | Gives the reader more than one chance to make sense of challenging text
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| show | A rise and fall of voice produced by the alternation of stressed and unstressed syllables in language.
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| show | The time and place of the action
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| show | A figure of speech that makes an explicit comparison between two unlike things,USING the words LIKE or AS.
Ex: My shoes were like falcons, enabling my to fly across the basketball court.
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| show | A group of lines in a poem considered as a unit.Stanzas often function like paragraphs in prose. Each stanza states and develops a single main idea.
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| show | A person, place, thing, or event, that has meaning in itself and that also stands for something more than itself.
Ex: The eagle is a bird, but it is also the symbol for American freedom,liberty and justice.
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| show | The central message or insight into life revealed through the poem.
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| show | The attitude a writer takes toward the subject of a work, the characters in it, of the audience.
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