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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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Couplet   show
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Drawing Conclusions   show
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show Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme  
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Haiku   show
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Hyperbole   show
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show The use of language to evoke a picture or a concrete sensation or a person, a thing, a place, or an experience.  
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Inferring   show
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Irony   show
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Meaning   show
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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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Mood   show
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Onomatopoeia   show
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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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Personification   show
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show Gives the reader more than one chance to make sense of challenging text  
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show The repetition of vowel sounds in accented syllables and all succeeding syllables. The pattern of rhymes in a poem is called a rhyme scheme  
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Rhythm   show
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Setting   show
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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 fourteen-line lyric poem, usually written in rhymed iambic pentameter  
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Speaker   show
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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 Guide the reader to organize and restate info, usually in written form.  
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Symbols   show
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show The central message or insight into life revealed through the poem.  
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Tone   show
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