Poetry

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What is personification?

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Gives human qualities to nonhuman things.

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What is a metaphor?

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Compares two things WITHOUT using like or as.

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What is onomatopoeia?

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Words that imitate sounds, like 'honk', 'crash', 'boom', and 'clang'.

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What is alliteration?

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Words that start with the same sound or letter and are repeated in a phrase or sentence.

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What is a simile?

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Compares two things using 'like' or 'as'.

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What is a rhyme?

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Words that have the same ending sound.

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What is a stanza?

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

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What is imagery in poetry?

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Descriptive language that creates pictures in the reader's mind.

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What is a theme in poetry?

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The main idea or message of the poem.

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What is a haiku?

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A three-line poem with a 5-7-5 syllable pattern.