Poetry Terms Word Scramble
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| Question | Answer |
| Uses each letter in a word going down to create a poem. | acrostic |
| Has a second meaning along with the story. | allegory |
| Meant to be sung. | ballad |
| Five lines. | cinquain |
| A long poem on a serious subject involving heros. | epic |
| Words to achieve special meaning or affect. | figurative language |
| An overstatement. Exageration of possibility ir fact. | hyperbole |
| To represent an image. To suggest visual picture. | imagery |
| Two unlike objects are compared without like or as. | metaphor |
| A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. | meter |
| Words whose sounds express meanings. | onomatopoeia |
| Giving inanimate objects human characteristics. | personification |
| A short popular saying. | proverb |
| A play on words. (Think Carl Azuz) | pun |
| Repeating. | repetition |
| Words that sound alike. | rhyme |
| Words formed in the image the words are discribing. | shape/concrete |
| A single stanza. 14 lines. (Think Shakespeare) | sonnet |
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