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7th Grade Poetry Terms

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Language that is means exactly what is stated   Literal Language  
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Language that is used to state ideas in vivid and imaginative ways   Figurative Language  
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Using like or as to compare to dissimilar things   Simile  
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A comparison of two or more things that is stated like a fact   Metaphor  
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When you given non-human things, human-like qualities   Personification  
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An expression that means something other than the literal meanings of its individual words   Idiom  
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Language that appeals to the five senses   Imagery (Sensory)  
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An extreme exaggeration   Hyperbole  
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A brief and indirect reference to a real or fictional person, place, or event   Allusion  
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Using the same word, phrase, or line, two or more times in poetry or prose   Repetition  
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The repetition of beginning consonant sounds   Alliteration  
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When a words imitates the sound it represents   Onomatopoeia  
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When words end with the same sound   Rhyme  
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A repeated pattern of rhyming words at the end of lines in poetry   Rhyme Scheme  
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The series of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry   Rhythm  
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Words that rhyme in a single line of poetry   Internal Rhyme  
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The repetition of vowel sounds in a line of poetry   Assonance  
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A traditional Japanese poem that is 3 lines and has a syllable pattern of 5-7-5   Haiku  
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A conventional poem that is 5 lines line and has a word count of 1-2-3-4-1   Cinquain  
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A traditional English poem that is funny, has 5 lines, follows a AABBA rhyme scheme, and has a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables   Limerick  
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A conventional poem that is a comparison and contrast of two ideas and is in the shape of a diamond   Diamonte  
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Poems that do not follow conventional form and can make their own rules. For example, "the delight song of tsoai-talee."   Free Verse  
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Name the poetry term: "And his brain cries out for meat"   Personification  
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Name the poetry term: "He stalks with stealth and cunning."   Alliteration  
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Name the poetry term: "Oh he’s waiting . . . just waiting . . . to get you."   Repetition  
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Name the poetry term: "I am the cold of the dawn."   Metaphor  
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Name the poetry term: "Gobble! Gobble! Gulp! "   Onomatopoeia  
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Name the poetry term: "Then swallow you like scrambled eggs."   Simile  
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Name the poetry term: "Your heart is beating faster/ Beating louder than a drum"   Hyperbole  
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Name the poetry term: " I am the hunger of a young wolf."   Metaphor  
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Name the poetry term: "Tlot-tlot! Tlot-tlot!"   Onomatopoeia  
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Name the poetry term: "I thought the earth remembered me"   Personification  
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Name the poetry term: "And the highwayman came riding—riding—riding-- "   Repetition  
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