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Poetry Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| alliteration | repetition of initial consonant sounds |
| allusion | a reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art |
| ballad | a song-like poem that tells a story |
| blank verse | poetry written in unrhymed, ten-syllable lines |
| concrete poem | a poem with a shape that suggests its subject |
| figurative language | writing that is not meant to be taken literally |
| free verse | poetry not written in a regular rhythmical pattern or meter |
| haiku | a three-lined Japanese verse |
| image | a word or phrase that appeals to one or more of the five senses |
| lyric poem | highly musical verse that expresses the observations and feelings of a single speaker |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which something is described as though it were something else |
| mood | the feeling created in the reader by a literary work |
| narrative poem | a story told in verse |
| onomatopoeia | the use of words as sounds |
| personification | a type of figurative language in which a non-human subject is given human characteristics |
| refrain | a regularly repeated line or group of lines in a poem |
| repetition | the use, more than once, of any element of language |
| rhyme | the repetition of sounds at the end of words |
| rhyme scheme | a regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem |
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