Poetry Terms Review

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What is personification?

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A poetic device where human qualities are attributed to non-human things.

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What is a simile?

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A comparison between two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'.

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What is a theme in literature?

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The central message or insight into life revealed through a literary work.

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What is alliteration?

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The repetition of the same initial consonant sounds in a series of words.

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What is an allusion?

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A reference to another work of literature, art, historical event, or pop culture.

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What is a metaphor?

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A figure of speech that makes a direct comparison between two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as'.

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What is imagery in poetry?

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Descriptive language that appeals to the senses and creates mental images.

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What is a stanza?

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A grouped set of lines in a poem, often separated by a space from other stanzas.

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What is rhyme?

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The repetition of similar sounds at the end of lines in poetry.

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What is a couplet?

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Two consecutive lines of poetry that usually rhyme and have the same meter.