Poetry Terms

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What is the musical quality produced by the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables?

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Rhythm

Front

What figure of speech gives human-like characteristics to an abstract idea or non-human thing?

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Personification

Front

What is the term for the use of a word, phrase, line, or sound more than once?

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Repetition

Front

What is the term for a word that imitates a sound?

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Onomatopoeia

Front

What figure of speech compares two different things using 'like' or 'as'?

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Simile

Front

What figure of speech makes a direct comparison between two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as'?

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Metaphor

Front

What is the repetition of the same initial consonant sound in a series of words?

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Alliteration

Front

What is the term for a rhyme that occurs at the end of lines in poetry?

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End Rhyme

Front

What is the term for a rhyme that occurs within a single line of poetry?

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Internal Rhyme

Front

What is the term for a deliberate exaggeration used for emphasis or effect?

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Hyperbole