CKLA Unit 3 Poetry Terms

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What is first person point of view?

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The speaker or narrator tells the story from their own perspective.

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What are words or sentences spoken by a character in a poem, play, or story?

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Dialogue.

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What is an example of alliteration?

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Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

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What is a stanza?

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A group of lines.

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What is a simile?

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A comparison using 'like' or 'as', e.g., 'The sunset was like cotton candy.'

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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', e.g., 'Time is a thief.'

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What is personification?

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Giving human traits to non-human things, e.g., 'The wind whispered through the trees.'

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What is a rhyme?

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A repetition of similar sounds in two or more words, often at the end of lines in poems.

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What is a theme in poetry?

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The main idea or underlying message of a poem.

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What is imagery in poetry?

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Descriptive language that appeals to the senses and creates a picture in the reader's mind.