Vocab #5

Rhyme is...

• a pair of rhyming lines in poetry, usually the same length.
  

• the matching up of sounds and syllables, usually at the   end of lines of poetry.

• when you represent non-living things as living things.

Rhythm is...

• the beat and pace, in the line or verse of a poem, created by stressed and unstressed syllables.

• comparing two unlike things by stating one thing is another.

• the message an author is trying to show the reader,   usually a message about life.

A couplet is...

• an expression that holds a different meaning from it literal meaning.

• is the matching up of sounds and syllables, usually at the   end of lines of poetry.

• a pair of rhyming lines in poetry, usually the same length.
  

A stanza is...

• two or more lines of poetry arranged together as a unit,           usually in a recurring pattern.

• a pair of rhyming lines in poetry, usually the same length.
  

• describing something with great exaggeration.

Personification is...

• when you use a series of words with the same beginning sound.

• comparing two unlike things by stating one thing is another.
  

• when you represent non-living things as living things.

A metaphor is...

• comparing two unlike things by stating one thing is another.

• a pair of rhyming lines in poetry, usually the same length.
  

• the matching up of sounds and syllables, usually at the   end of lines of poetry.

A hyperbole...

• when you represent non-living things as living things.
  

• is describing something with great exaggeration.

• two or more lines of poetry arranged together as a unit,           usually in a recurring pattern.

Alliteration is...

• comparing two unlike things by stating one thing is another.

• when you use a series of words with the same beginning sound.

• a pair of rhyming lines in poetry, usually the same length.

An idiom is...

• the message an author is trying to show the reader,   usually a message about life.

• an expression that holds a different meaning from its           literal meaning and reflect a people’s culture.

• a pair of rhyming lines in poetry, usually the same length.

The theme is..

• the message an author is trying to show the reader,   usually a message about life.

• describing something with great exaggeration.

• two or more lines of poetry arranged together as a unit,           usually in a recurring pattern.