Poetry terminology

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"_____________" is the author’s use of descriptive or sensory words to create a picture in the reader’s mind.

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Imagery

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"_____________" is when human qualities are given to things. For example: The wind whispered, and the trees shuddered with cold.

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Personification

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_____________ are two lines of a poem that rhyme with each other.

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Rhyming couplets

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_____________ is the comparison of two things using like or as, for example: It’s as smooth as silk. Her smile was like sunshine.

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Simile

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_____________ is the genre of literature which is an expression of ideas and feelings in words, usually having form, figurative language, rhythm, and rhyme.

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Poetry

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"_____________" is a group of related lines in a poem; the paragraph of poetry.

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Stanza

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"_____________" is a sound device, the rhythm and measurement of beats of a poem.

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Meter

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"_____________" is when two words end with the same vowel sounds. For example: Home/alone, same/insane, cool/rule, tree/me

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Rhyme

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"_____________" is a sound device where sounds, words, phrases, lines, or stanzas are repeated for emphasis.

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Repetition

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"_____________" is the repetition of an initial consonant in two, or more, words.

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Alliteration