Unit 5 Flashcards
1
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Alliteration
A
repetition of the initial consonants of words.
2
Q
Free Verse
A
a poem without predictable rhyme
3
Q
Hyperbole
A
excessive exaggeration to make a point
4
Q
Imagery
A
the use of vivid words that appeal to the reader’s senses of sight
5
Q
Metaphor
A
a comparison of two dissimilar things that implies some sort of equality between the things
6
Q
Onomatopoeia
A
a word that makes the sound of the action it describes
7
Q
Personification
A
a comparison that gives human qualities to inanimate objects
8
Q
Rhyme scheme
A
the pattern of the end rhymes in a poem
9
Q
Simile
A
a comparison of two dissimilar thin
gs that uses “like” or “as”
10
Q
Speaker
A
the narrator of a poem
11
Q
Stanza
A
a group of lines of poetry
12
Q
Symbol
A
something in a poem that stands for something larger than itself
