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Poetry Terms

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Alliteration   The repetition of initial consonant sounds at the beginning of words.  
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Mood   The feeling that an author wants readers to have while reading  
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Similie   Comparison of two unlike things using the terms "like" or "as"  
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Connotation   The emotional feelings and associations that go beyond the dictionary definition of a word  
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Symbol   Person, place, thing, or event that represents something more than itself in a literary work  
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Figurative Language   Goes beyond the literal meaning of words to create special effects or feelings  
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Idiom   Phrase in common use that can not be understood by literal or ordinary meanings  
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Imagery   Use of language that appeals to the five senses  
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Onomatopoeia   Use of words that sound like the noises they describe  
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Personification   Type of figurative language in which human qualities are given to nonhuman things  
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Rhyme   Repetition of similar sounds at the ends of words  
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Internal Rhyme   Occurs within a line of poetry when two words have similar ending sounds  
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Rhyme Scheme   The regular pattern of rhyme found at the ends of lines in a poem  
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Rhythm   The musical quality created by a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables  
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Stanza   Group of related lines in a poem, similar to a paragraph in prose  
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Tone   The attitude that an author takes toward the audience, subject, or a character  
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Structure   Refers to a writer's arrangement or overall design of a literary work. It is the way words, sentences, and paragraphs are organized to create a complete work  
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Parallelism   Persuasive technique in which an author creates a BALANCED sentence by re-using the same word structure.  
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