Poetry Terms and Vocab 1

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Alliteration

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Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

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Personification

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Giving human traits to non-living objects

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Author's attitude towards a subject

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Tone

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Simile

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Comparison with like or as

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Movement with regular repetition, enhancing the musical quality of language.

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Rhythm

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Implied comparison between two things without 'like' or 'as'

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Metaphor

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Part of a poem

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Stanza

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Imagery is:

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Using language that paints pictures in the reader's mind.

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Words that sound like what they are

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Onomatopoeia

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Using a word, phrase, or line multiple times

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Repetition