Poetry Terms Flashcards

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Tone

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The writers attitude

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Mood

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The atmosphere/feeling created in a reader

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Setting

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The time and place of the story

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Imagery

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Descriptive language that uses the 5 senses to create an image or feeling in the reader
Sight sound smell taste touch

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Narrative

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Tells a story

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Lyric

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Music

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Free verse

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No rhythm or rhyme scheme

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Blank verse

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No rhyme

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Haiku

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Japanese poetry 5 7 5 syllables

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Sonnet

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Old like Shakespeare 14 lines rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg iambic pentameter

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Stanza

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Paragraph/body of writing

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Rhyme scheme

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Abba

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Couplet

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Rhymes at the end of sentences/lines

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14
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Rhythm/iambic pentameter

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Da dum 5x

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Rhyme

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Cat hat flat

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Alliteration

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Repetition of sounds (tongue twisters) the knights clattered and clashed

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Assonance

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Repetition of vowel sounds

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Consonance

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Repetition of constant sounds

19
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End rhyme

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Rhymes at the end

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Internal rhyme

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Rhymes anywhere in the middle

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Onomatopoeia

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Words that sounds represent boom bang pow

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Literal or denotation

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Dictionary or direct meaning

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Figurative

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Implied meaning- what you meant

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Metaphor

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Compare 2 things

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Simile

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Same as metaphor using as like or than

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Personification

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Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects

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Hyperbole

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Deliberate exaggeration