Poetry

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What are words or phrases repeated throughout the poem called?

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refrain

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What is the use of words to create pictures in your mind, appealing to the five senses?

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imagery

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What are words that imitate sounds?

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onomatopoeia

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What is a comparison of unlike things using "like" or "as"?

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simile

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What is personification?

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An object or animal taking on human characteristics.

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Which poetry term refers to a group of lines arranged together in a poem?

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stanza

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Poetry that does not have a set rhyming pattern.

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free verse

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How is poetry written? (structure)

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Lines & stanzas

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The message or moral of the story

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theme

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Onomatopoeias, metaphors, similes, hyperboles, idioms, and personification are all types of...

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figurative language