Poetry Terms

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What is a simile?

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A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance/comparison between things using 'like' or 'as'.

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What is personification?

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A type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics.

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What is rhythm in poetry?

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The pattern of the stressed and the unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.

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What is a rhyme scheme?

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The 'end rhymes' of poems; the poem follows a specific rhyming of words at the end of each line shown by capital letters.

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What is onomatopoeia?

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A figure of speech in which natural sounds are imitated in the sounds of words.

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What is a metaphor?

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

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What is imagery?

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Descriptive language that appeals to the senses and creates a picture in the reader's mind.

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What is an antonym?

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A word that has the opposite meaning of another word.

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What is a stanza?

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A group of lines in a poem, similar to a paragraph in prose.

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What is alliteration?

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