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poetry

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What is an acrostic?   Uses each letter in a word going down to create a poem  
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What is an allegory?   extended narrative metaphor (two meanings) objects, persons, ect. are equated with the meanings that lie outside the narrative itself.  
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What is a ballad?   A poem that tells a story similar to a folk tale, legend and often repeats the refrain (chorus)  
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What is a cinquain?   It has 5 lines; line one word is one word title, line two is two words that describe the title, line three is three words that tell a certain action, line four is four words that express a feeling, and line five is one word that recalls the title  
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What is an epic?   A long serous poem that tells a story of a heroic figure.  
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What is figurative language?   Describes something comparing it to something else.  
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What is a hyperbole?   Exaggeration that is so dramatic no one would believe it.  
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What is imagery?   Represents things, actions, or abstract ideas descriptively.  
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What is a metaphor?   Figure of language in which two unlike objects are compared by identification.  
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What is a meter?   A pattern f stressed and unstressed syllabels or stress patern.  
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What is a onomatopoeia?   Words whose sounds seem to express or reinforce their meanings (boom)  
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What is personification?   Giving human qualities to inanimative objects.  
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What is a proverb?   Popular short saying usually unknown and of ancient origin.  
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What is a pun?   A play on words that are identical in sounds, but are sharply diverse in meaning  
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What is repetition?   The act of repeating (action, performance, production, ect.)  
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What is a rhyme?   Repetition of the same or similair sounds at the end of two or more words.  
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What is shape/concrete?   Placement of words on the pages so that a picture is formed containing the image of the poem itself.  
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What is a sonnet?   A lyric poem containing of a single stanza of fourteen lines.  
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