STAAR Poetry Vocab Words

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Exaggeration

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hyperbole

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Words that represent sounds

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onomatopoeia

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Who wrote the poem?

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poet

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A genre of writing with figurative language, written in lines, may rhyme.

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poem

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A story for actors; a play

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drama

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A person who wrote a play/drama

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playwright

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Comparison of two unlike things without 'like' or 'as'

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metaphor

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Comparing two things using like or as

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simile

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The 'paragraph' in a poem

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stanza

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Giving human qualities to non-human things

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personification