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Poetry Terms to Know
Study these vocabulary words to prepare for EOG's!
Question | Answer |
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alliteration | repetition of initial consonant sounds |
free verse | lines with no pattern, structure or rhyme |
imagery | descriptive or figurative language that creates word pictures |
hyperbole | an exaggeration |
tone | the way an author feels about his or her topic |
mood | the feeling of the selection,the way the author wants the reader to feel |
irony | where a writer says one thing while meaning another |
theme | the moral or lesson about life that a selection teaches |
onomatopoeia | words that imitate the sounds associated with the words or objects |
personification | giving an non-human thing human characteristics |
stanza | a group of lines in a poem |
rhyme | repetition of ending sounds in words |
sensory words | language that appeals to the senses (smell, sight, sounds) |
poet | the author of a poem |
metaphor | compares two unlike objects |
simile | compares objects using like or as |