L.a poet Flashcards

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Images

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A technique poets and writers use to describe and appeal to the sense ex the picture a poet “paints”

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Setting

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Time and place where a story or poem takes place

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Mood

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the atmosphere or the feeling that persuades a piece of work

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Message

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What the poet is trying to get across in a poem

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Syllables

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A unit of pronunciation having one vowel sound, with or without surrounding consonants, forming the whole or part of a sound. Beautiful has 3 syllable

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Haiku

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a Japanese poem of 17 syllables n 3 lines of 5-7-5. Evokes images of the nature world.

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Simile

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comparison using “like” or “as” (saying something is like something)

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Metaphor

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Represent one thing as something else (saying something is something) ex. she is a spider

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Personification

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Giving human qualities to a thing or idea

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Hyperbole

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Using exaggeration for effect ex my bag weighs a ton

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Onomatopoeia

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words that are sounds

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Concrete poem

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A poem that takes the shape of its subject

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rhyme scheme

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

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rhythm

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The arrangement of beats in a line of poetry

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repetition

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repeats of the same words or phrases

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vivid verbs

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a colorful or strong action word

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hyphen

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a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word ( - )

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semicolon

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to join two independent clauses without using a conjunction like “and” ( ; ) used to make lines interesting in poems

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dash

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used to separate parts of words like hyphens ( - ) used to make lines interesting in poems