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POETRY TERMS-FWN-SRS Test

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alliteration
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meter
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symbol
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metaphor
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enjambment
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assonance
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consonance
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simile
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onomatopoeia
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approximate or slant rhyme
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a concrete object that represents an abstract ideal
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a figure of speech that compares two apparently unlike things using like or as
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the repetition of similar vowel sounds within non-rhyming words like low and ghost
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a rhyme that occurs when end rhymes are similar, but not exact, as in prove and glove
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the repetition of beginning consonant sounds (like silly Sally or dusk of impending death)
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a figure of speech that compares two apparently unlike things WITHOUT using like or as
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the repetition of consonant sounds in words within a line, like fall and faithful
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the use of words that imitate sound, like boom or swish.
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the regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poetic line
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the running over of a sentence or thought from one line to another
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poetry that does not have regular meter or rhyme scheme
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a pause or sudden stop in a line of poetry
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the rhyme that occurs when rhyming words fall within the same line of a poem
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a figure of speech that gives human traits to something nonhuman
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the voice of a poem that communicates to the reader
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descriptive language that appeals to one or more of the five senses--sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell.
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when the speaker addresses an absent person as if present or addresses a a personified quality or object
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poetry that tells a story
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poetry that expresses observations and feelings of a single speaker
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a regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem formed at the ends of the lines--to describe it one uses a letter of the alphabet to represent each rhyming sound

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