Poetry Terms

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What is Tone in poetry?

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Tone refers to the attitude of a writer toward a subject they are writing about.

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What is Personification?

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Personification is assigning human qualities to something that is not human.

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What is Diction?

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Diction refers to word choice.

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What is Enjambment?

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Enjambment is a term used in poetry to refer to lines that end without punctuation and without completing a sentence or clause.

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What is Mood in poetry?

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Mood is the emotional response that the writer wishes to evoke in the reader through a story, poem, play, etc.

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What is a Metaphor?

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A metaphor is 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 simile is a figure of speech that compares two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'.

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What is Alliteration?

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

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What is Hyperbole?

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Hyperbole is an exaggerated statement not meant to be taken literally.

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What is a Symbol in poetry?

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A symbol is a word or phrase that represents something beyond its literal meaning.