POETRY

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POETRY

• Terms to Know

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FORM

• Physical arrangement of the words on the page.
  Includes the length and placement of the lines
  and the way they are grouped into stanzas

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STANZA

• A paragraph in poetry

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FREE VERSE

• Poetry that does not have any strict formal
  pattern

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ALLITERATION

• Repetition of initial consonant sounds in nearby
  words
• Jiggle and jump for joy

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ASSONANCE

• Repetition of vowel sounds within words
• A greed as deep as the sea

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CONSONANCE

• Repetition of consonant sounds within or at the
  end of words
• Of fleet foot and sound mind

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RHYME

• Repetition of final sounds in two or more words
• A stray gray tray

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RHYME SCHEME

• The pattern formed by the rhymes at the end of
  the lines

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ONOMATOPOEIA

• Use of words like snort, clank and hiss that
  sound like what they refer to

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RHYTHM

• Pattern, or beat, of stressed and unstressed
  syllables in a line of poetry

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METER

• When the rhythm is repeated throughout the poem

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IMAGERY

• Word pictures in poems that help the readers to
  see, hear, feel, smell, and even taste the
  experiences they present

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FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

• Conveys meanings beyond the literal meanings of
  the words

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SIMILE

• Uses like or as to compare two things

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METAPHOR

• Direct comparison says something is something
  else

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PERSONIFICATION

• Type of figurative language in which animals,
  inanimate objects, or ideas are given human
  qualities