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PelleyPoetry
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Draws the reader into poetic experiences by touching on the images and senses which the reader already knows | Imagery |
| A stanza or poem of four lines with alternating rhyme scheme. Example: abab | Quatrain |
| Pair of lines that are the same length and usually rhyme and form a complete thought | Couplet |
| Poetry composed of either rhymed or unrhymed lines that have no set fixed metrical pattern or expectation | Free verse |
| Giving human traits to nonhuman or abstract things | Personification |
| The repetition or a pattern of similar sounds, as in the tongue twister "Moses supposes his toeses are roses." | Assonance |
| A figure of speech in which words are used to imitate sounds. Example: clippity-clop | Onomatopoeia |
| The occurrence of the same or similar sounds at the end of two or more words | Rhyme |
| Lyric poems that are 14 lines long falling into three coordinate quatrains and a concluding couples | Sonnet |
| A figure of speech in which two things are compared using the word "like" or "as" to draw attention to similarities about two things that are seemingly dissimilar | Simile |
| Regularized RHYTHMS. An arrangement of language in which the accents occur at apparently equal intervals in time. | Meter |
| The repetition of the same or similar sounds at the beginning of words such as tongue twisters like "she sells seashells by the seashore." | Alliteration |
| The repetition, at close intervals, of the final consonant sounds of accented syllables or important words. | Consonance |
| Equating two seemingly unlike objects by saying on IS the other | Metaphor |
| Two or more syllables that together make up the smallest unit of rhythm in a poem | Foot |
| The pattern of rhyme formed by end rhyme: identified by assigning a different letter to each new rhyme | Rhyme Scheme |
| The repetition of similar vowel sounds | Assonance |
| The repetition of similar sounds, most often consonants, at the beginning of words | Alliteration |
| The basic unit of meter; typically made up of at least one stressed and one unstressed syllable | Foot |
| Words that create a picture in your head with reference to the five senses | Imagery |
| The repetition of similar consonant sounds within words or at the end of words | Consonance |
| Repetition of similar wounds that occur at the end of a line of poetry | End rhyme |
| A figure of speech in which an animal, an object, or an idea is given human characteristics | Personification |
| The use of a word or phrase that imitates or suggests the sound it describes | Onomatopoeia |
| The measured arrangement of words in poetry, as by accentual rhythm, syllabic quantity, or the number of syllables in a line | Meter |
| "The vessel grim and daring" is an example of | Personification |
| "For you the flag is flung" is an example of | Alliteration |
| "his lips are pale and still" | Imagery |
| "fearful trip the victor ship" | Assonance |
| "rise up and hear the bells" | Imagery |
| "shadows - hold their breath" | Personification |
| "some late visitor entreating entrance at" | Consonance |
| "flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting" | Assonance |
| "a Fly buzz - when I died" | Onomotopoeia |
| "while I nodded, nearly napping" | Alliteration |
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