Poetry Terms

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A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance/comparison between things using like or as

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simile

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A figure of speech comparing two unlike things without using like or as.

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metaphor

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The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

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Alliteration

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a figure of speech in which natural sounds are imitated in the sounds of words

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onomatopoeia

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The use of figures of speech to create vivid images that appeal to one of the senses.

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Imagery

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The pattern of the stressed and the unstressed syllables in a line of poetry

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rhythm

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a type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics

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personification

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words or phrases that mean something different from the literal meanings of the words

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idiom

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a group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit; a division of a poem that is often referred to as a “paragraph of poetry”

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stanza

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The “end rhymes” of poems; the poem follows a specific rhyming of words at the end of each line shown by capital letters.

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pattern