Poetry Vocabulary

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What is a kind of rhythmic, compressed language that uses figures of speech and imagery designed to appeal to emotion and imagination lyric and narrative?

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poetry

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The way a poem is laid out on the page is called

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form

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What is a group of lines called that form a verse?

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Stanza

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A word that is used more than one time in a line is called...

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Repetition

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Exaggeration (ex: I am so hungry I could eat a horse.)

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hyperbole

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Repetition of a consonant sound at the BEGINNING of words used close to one another

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alliteration

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Using words that have the same (or very similar) ending sound is called

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rhyme

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The use of words that vividly describe a sound (the word mimics the sound) so that readers can clearly "hear" them is called

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onomatopoeia

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A figure of speech that gives human-like characteristics to an abstract idea or non-human thing is called

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personification

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Descriptive or figurative language in writing where the author uses words that appeal to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)

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imagery