Poetic Techniques Flashcards
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Onomatopoeia
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Saying words as they look
BANG!!!!
1
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Simile
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Describing things using (like,as or than)
The sound of the music was as sweet as candy
2
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Metaphor
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Comparing two things
As sweet as candy
3
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Rhyme
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Two things sound the same
Hat-Bat
4
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Haiku
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Japanese poem usually about nature
5
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Acrostic
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Spelling out words and writing words beside them
B…….
A…….
T…….
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Alliteration
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The first letter of each word used in each word
Hungry Hippos
7
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Limerick
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Five line poem
8
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Rhythm
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The beat of a poem
9
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Sonnet
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Old English
Where art thou?
10
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Personification
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Putting a human action on inanimate object
The chair flew
11
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Pun
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A play on words
12
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Assonance
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The repetition of similar vowels
13
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Hyperbolé
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An extravagant exaggeration
14
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Tone
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The way the poem is written
15
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Theme
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The main idea of the poem
Happy,sad
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Genre
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The type of poem
Music,nature
