Poetry Vocabulary Review

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What is alliteration?

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the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

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What is a simile?

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A comparison using "like" or "as"

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What is a metaphor?

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A comparison without using like or as

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The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.

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Personification

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Onomatopoeia

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The use of words that imitate sounds

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What is a "description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)"?

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Imagery

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Assonance

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Repetition of vowel sounds

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Which word means "to place side by side for comparison?"

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Juxtapose

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What is theme?

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Underlying message of the piece of literature

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This term is "where a line of poetry ends"

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