Poetry Terms to Know

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Poetry Terms to Know
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• Narrative poetry tells a story in
• verse
• Lyric poetry Verse that focuses on the
  speakers thoughts and feelings
• Rhythm pattern of stressed and unstressed beats
  in a poem
• Speaker the imaginary voice that a poet uses
  when writing a poem

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• Nonsense poetry poetry that tells a story that
  doesnt make sense

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• Rhyme repetition of the sounds
• at the ends of words, A B A B
• Tone Writers attitude toward the subject. Can
  be serious or humorous.
• Stanza- group of line of poetry that are usually
  similar in length
• Verse- a line of poetry

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• Concrete poem (shape poem) words take the shape
  of the poems subject

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• Imagery use of images or word pictures that
  appeal to the senses.
• Haiku a three line poem-
• Line 1 has 5 syllables
• Line 2 has 7 syllables
• Line 3 has 5 syllables
• Limerick- short funny poem with a distinct
  pattern of rhyme and rhythm

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• Onomatopoeia the use of sound
• words to imitate sounds- such as clash, bang
  and pop
• Alliteration The repetition of initial
  (beginning) consonant sounds. Example wh
  sound in whitely whirs.
• Repetition when a sound, word, phrase or
  sentence is repeated

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• Simile Uses like or as to compare two unlike
  items
• Example She was as pretty as a picture.
• Metaphor Compares one unlike thing to another
  without using like or as

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• Hyperbole An obvious exaggeration.
• Example The book weighs a ton.

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• Personification gives human characteristics to a
  nonhuman subject
• Example The oak tree waved its arms in the
  wind.