Poetry Terms

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What is onomatopoeia?

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A figure of speech in which natural sounds are imitated in the sounds of words.

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What is a simile?

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

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What is a metaphor?

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

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What is rhythm in poetry?

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

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What is imagery?

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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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What is personification?

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A figure of speech in which human qualities are given to animals, objects, or ideas.

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What is alliteration?

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The repetition of the same initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words.

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What is a stanza?

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A group of lines in a poem, often separated by a space from other stanzas.

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What is a rhyme?

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The repetition of similar sounds at the end of lines in poetry.

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What is a couplet?

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Two consecutive lines of poetry that usually rhyme and have the same meter.