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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