Poetry Terms

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What type of poetry shows a lot of emotion?

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Lyrical poetry expresses personal feelings and emotions.

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What is an exaggerated statement or claim called?

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Hyperbole is a figure of speech that involves an exaggeration.

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What do we call words that imitate sounds?

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Onomatopoeia refers to words that sound like what they represent, such as 'buzz' or 'sizzle'.

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What sound device is used when the ending sounds of words are the same?

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End Rhyme is when the last words of two or more lines rhyme.

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What is a section of a poem, set apart by a blank line, called?

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A stanza is a grouped set of lines in a poem.

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What is a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?

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A simile is a figure of speech that compares two different things using 'like' or 'as'.

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What is the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words?

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Alliteration is the repetition of the same initial consonant sounds in a series of words.

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What is a figure of speech that gives human qualities to non-human things?

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Personification is when human traits are attributed to animals, inanimate objects, or abstract ideas.

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What is a phrase that has a meaning different from the literal meaning of its words?

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An idiom is a common expression that does not mean what it literally says.

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What is the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry?

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Meter is the rhythmic structure of verses in poetry.