Poetry Vocab

Question 0

An expression that is not meant to be taken literally. Writers use this to express ideas in vivid and imaginative way. We see this a lot in poetry.

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Figurative language

Question 1

Verse that expresses a poet’s thoughts and feelings about a single image or idea. It is written in vivid, musical language.

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Lyric poetry

Question 2

A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem. You assign a letter to the ends of each line to indicate it.

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Rhyme scheme

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Poetry that tells a story. Like a story, it has a plot, characters, and a setting. Uses rhyme and/or repetition.

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Narrative poetry

Question 4

Word that imitates the sound it suggest

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Onomatopoeia

Question 5

Descriptive language that appeals to one or more of the 5 senses

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Imagery

Question 6

A comparison between 2 unlike things without using like or as

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Metaphor

Question 7

Giving human characteristics to a non-human subject

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Personification

Question 8

Exaggeration meant to produce a particular effect

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Hyperbole

Question 9

A comparison of 2 unlike things using like or as

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Simile

Question 10

Common phrases or terms whose meaning are not literal

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Idiom

Question 11

Repetition of words beginning with the same letter or sound are strung together (she sells sea shells)

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Alliteration

Question 12

The repetition of consonant sounds at the middle or ends of non-rhyming words or syllables

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Consonance

Question 13

The repetition of vowel sounds in neighboring non-rhyming words. Words with similar vowel sounds.

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Assonance

Question 14

A diamond shape poem that uses a certain form

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Diamante poem

Question 15

A poem that is primarily visual or can depend on basically sounds, structure, spacing, or any movement to convey (ex-forms a certain shape)

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Concrete poem

Question 16

7 lines- depend on a persons phone number and each line has the amount of syllables as the number assigned to its line.

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Septone poem

Question 17

Use your five senses to create a poem.

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5 senses poem

Question 18

A 3 lines poem that has five syllables for the first line, 7 for the next and five for the third.

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Haiku

Question 19

A light or humorous verse form of 5 chiefly anapestic verses in which lines 1,2&5 rhyme and 3&4 rhyme. AABBA

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Limerick

Question 20

The words in the poem are joined in an orderly fashion to form one statement, usually declarative

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Crossword poem

Question 21

A poem written about yourself and your feelings ect. But making yourself distinctive

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“I Am” Poem

Question 22

Unrhymed poem of 5 lines in which involves a gradual build up if syllables to 8 and then returns to 2 (2,4,6,8,2)

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Cinquain