Poetry Terms & Figurative Language 5th grade

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What is internal rhyme in poetry?

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When two words within the same line rhyme.

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What is a stanza?

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A grouping of lines.

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What are words that imitate sounds?

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onomatopoeia

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What is the use of words to create pictures in your mind, appealing to the five senses?

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imagery

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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 personification?

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Giving human traits or characteristics to non-human things.

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What is alliteration?

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

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What is a rhyme scheme?

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The pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem.

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What is a couplet?

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Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme.