Poetry Terms

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Stanza

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A group of lines in a poem, like a paragraph in a story.

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Mood

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The feeling a poem gives the reader.

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Free Verse Poem

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A poem that does not have a set rhyme or rhythm.

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Rhyme

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When two or more words have the same ending sounds (e.g., cat and hat).

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Imagery

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Words that help create pictures in the reader’s mind.

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Simile

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

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Metaphor

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A figure of speech that describes one thing as if it were another.

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Alliteration

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

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Personification

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Giving human qualities to non-human things.

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Onomatopoeia

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Words that imitate sounds (e.g., buzz, hiss, roar).