ELA POETRY TERMS

Question 1

comparison using like or as

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simile

Question 2

comparison without using like or as

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metaphor

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when you give an inanimate object human qualities.

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personification

Question 4

an extreme exaggeration

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hyperbole

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the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

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alliteration

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The repetition of vowel sounds without repeating consonants.

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assonance

Question 7

The repeating of the use of the same word or phrase multiple times.

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repetition

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Words sound how they are spelt.

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Onomatopoeia

Question 9

it has Seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, five.

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haiku

Question 10

a poem of fourteen lines, and any rhyme scheme.

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sonnet

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A form of poetry that tells a story.

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narrative

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poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.

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free verse

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A poem that expresses one’s feelings and emotions.

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lyrical

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a poem or often a song was written in short stanzas.

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ballad

Question 15

a poem that looks like a word search

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acrostic

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a poem that takes shape of the meaning of the poem.

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concrete

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The poet’s attitude toward the poem’s speaker, reader, and subject matter, as interpreted by the reader.

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tone

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describes how word choice, subject matter, and the author’s tone convey an overall feeling that characterizes the emotional landscape of a poem for readers.

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mood

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the overall mood of a story or poem.

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atmosphere

Question 20

a literary device that uses symbols, be they words, people, marks, locations, or abstract ideas to represent something beyond the literal meaning.

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symbol/symbolism

Question 21

it’s a sentence in poetry.

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line

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it’s the paragraph of a poem.

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stanza

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the person who writes the poem

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poet

Question 24

is written in lines and stanzas.

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poetry

Question 25

A two-line verse.

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couplet

Question 26

writing means writing tangibly with the five senses: sight, sound, taste, touch, smell.

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imagery

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asking the reader or listener to understand something by virtue of its relation to some other thing, action, or image.

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figurative writing

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The main message or idea.

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theme

Question 29

When you think something will happen but something else does.

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irony

Question 30

the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse.

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rhyme scheme

Question 31

a repetition of similar sounds in the final stressed syllables and any following syllables of two or more words.

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rhyme