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Alliteration Is a repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words; used for emphasis and to give a musical quality to the writing.
Ballad Is a poem that tells a story and is meant to be sung or recited; usually depict ordinary people in the midst of tragic events or adventures of love and bravery.
Form Is its structure or organization; the arrangement of words and lines on the page. Some poems follow predictable patterns, with the same number of syllables in each line and the same number of lines in each stanza.
Free verse Poetry without regular patterns of rhyme and rhythm is called _______. Some poets use this to capture the sounds and rhythms of ordinary speech.
Hyperbole Is a figure of speech in which the truth is exaggerated for emphasis or for humorous effect.
Imagery Consists of words and phrases that appeal to reader’s five senses; details to help readers imagine how things look, feel, smell, sound, and taste.
Lines A unit in the structure of a poem consisting of one or more metrical feet arranged as a rhythmical entity.
Lyric Poetry that presents the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker; most poems are lyric (except narrative) and cover many subjects from love to death to everyday experiences.
Metaphor Is a comparison of two things that have some quality in common; does not contain words such as “like” or “as” to make a comparison.
Meter Is the regular pattern of accented (‘) and the unaccented ( ˘ ) syllables; all poems have rhythm although not all have _____. Each unit of ____ is as a foot.
Narrative Tells a story; like fiction, it contains characters, setting, and plots. It might also contain such elements of poetry as rhyme, rhythm, imagery, and figurative language.
Onomatopoeia Is the use of words whose sounds suggest their meaning; hiss, bang, thud, etc.
Personification The giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea.
Rhyme The repetition of sounds at the ends of words; words _____ when their accented vowels and all letters that follow have identical sounds.
Rhyme (external or end) The most common form of rhyme, in which the rhyming words are at the end of the lines.
Rhyme (internal) Rhyming that occurs within a line is called _______.
Rhyme repetition Is a technique in which a sound, word, phrase, or line is repeated for effect or emphasis.
Rhyme scheme The patterns of end rhyme; the pattern is charted by assigning a letter of the alphabet, beginning with the letter “a” to each line; lines that rhyme are given the same letter.
Simile Is a comparison of two things that have some quality in common; the comparison is expressed by means of a word such as “like, as,” or “resembles”.
Stanza Is a grouping of two or more lines; is comparable to a paragraph. May have the same number of lines or may vary.
Speaker Is the voice that talks to the reader in poem.
Sound devices Made up by alliteration, onomatopoeia, repetition, thyme, rhythm.
Symbolism Is a person, a place, an object, or an action that stands for something beyond itself.
Connotation Is a word’s ideas or feelings.
Denotation Is a word’s dictionary meaning.
Idiom Is an expression whose meaning is different from the sum of the meaning of the individual words.
Imagery Consists of words and phrases that appeal to readers’ five senses.
Poetry Is a type of literature in which ideas and feelings are expressed in compact, imaginative, and often musical language.
allusion Is a reference to a famous person, place, event, or work of literature.
figurative language Conveys (states) a meaning beyond the ordinary, literal meaning.
