Poetry Terms Flashcards
Describe:
Stanza
A group of lines of poetry that are usually similar in length and pattern and are separated by spaces
A central message in a literary work
Theme
What poetry term is this:
Peter piper picked a peek of pickled peppers
Assonance
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Hyperbole
Over exaggeration of something in a story, not meant to be literal
What poetry term is this:
The curtain of night covered the land
Metaphor
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Onomatopoeia
The use of words to imitate sounds
What poetry term
A type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics
Personification
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Repetition
The use, more than once, of any element of language
What poetry term:
A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem
Rhyme Scheme
Give an example of a simile
Pale as a ghost, good as gold, etc…
