Poetry Terms

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What is poetry?

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A type of literature that expresses ideas, feelings, or tells a story in a specific form, usually using lines and stanzas.

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What is personification?

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An animal given human-like qualities or an object given life-like qualities.

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What is the form of a poem?

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The appearance of the words on the page.

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What is rhyme?

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Words that sound alike because they share the same ending vowel and consonant sounds.

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What is a couplet?

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A two-line stanza.

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What is a stanza?

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

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What is imagery in poetry?

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Descriptive language that appeals to the senses and creates mental images.

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What is a metaphor?

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A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as'.

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What is a simile?

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A figure of speech that compares two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'.

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What is an alliteration?

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