Poetry Test Review

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Poetry Test Review
Terminology Figurative Language Poetic devices Identify the device
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• A type of poem that emphasizes the personal
  thoughts and feelings of the poet (ie. songs,
  sonnets, odes, elegies).

What is the lyric?
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• An idea that a word implies or suggests.

What the connotation?
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• The structural division or any separation to
  divide a poem.

What is the stanza or verse?
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• When the reader or audience knows something one
  or more characters do not.

What is Dramatic Irony ?
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• A word or phrase that departs from everyday
  literal language for the sake of comparison,
  emphasis, clarity, or freshness to give a meaning
  beyond their ordinary one .

What is figurative language?
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• A word or image that represents both itself and
  something else.

What is a symbol?
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• An overstatement to emphasize a point.

What is a hyperbole?
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• A play on words, using one word in more than one
  meaning.

What is a pun?
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• Giving human characteristics to non-human forms.

What is personification?
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• An indirect reference to a person, thing or event
  from mythology, history, literature or some other
  source

What is allusion?
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• Saying the opposite of what is meant.

What is verbal irony?
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• A type of poetry that tells a story (ballads)

What is a narrative?
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• Saying less than one means.

What is an understatement?
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• The representation of sense experience images
  may appeal to one or a combination of our five
  senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste, or touch.
  

What is imagery?
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• Life is a highway.

What is a metaphor?
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• She will crawl to the ball with her doll

What is rhyme?
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• Please peel this peck of pickled peppers Peter
  Piper picked.

What is Alliteration?
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• Life is like a box of chocolates.

What is a simile?
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• Swoosh!
• Crash!
• Boom!

What is onomatopoeia?
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• Jumbo
• Shrimp!

What is an oxymoron?