Vocabulary For Poetry Flashcards

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Simile

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comparison of 2 things using like or as

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Metaphor

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comparison of 2 things without using like or as

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Personification

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Onomatopoeia

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Imagery

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Allusion

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Tone

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Hyperbole

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exaggeration of poetry

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Alliteration

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repeating the first consonant

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Assonance

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repeating of vowel sound in a line of a poem

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Consonance

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repeating consonants sounds

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End rhyme

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when one word at the end of a line rhymes with another word at the end of another line

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Internal rhyme

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when one word in the middle of a line rhymes with another word in the middle of the line under it

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Stanza

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A paragraph in a poem

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Couplet

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2 lines where the last words have the same sound

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Quatrain

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a 4 line paragraph with the same idea

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Enjambment

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a long sentence that takes up more than one line

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Free Verse

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a poem that doesn’t rhyme

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Persona

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not the author but the person who is narrating the poem

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Character

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another person in the poem