Vocabulary
Poetry Terms
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movies
100

the use of words that appeal to the reader's senses 

imagery  

100

similar to a paragraph but in a poem

stanza

100

poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme

free verse

100

Don't touch the magical rose!

Beauty and the Beast

200

when an author gives the reader a hint that something will happen later in the story

foreshadow

200

A speech form or an expression of a given phrase that is peculiar. EX: "It's raining cats and dogs."

Idiom

200

A scene that interrupts the present action to depict something that happened earlier.

Flashback

200

Little blue people

Smurfs

300

words the characters say to each other

dialogue

300

A comparison that uses like or as. EX: "Man's life is like a summer leaf."

Simile

300

A phrase that combines contrary terms. EX: bitter sweet, sweet sorrow, jumbo shrimp

Oxymoron

300

In this movie there's a snowman

 Frozen

400


evaluate  


to judge

400

A deliberate extravagant and often outrageous exaggeration

Hyperbole

400

What builds attention to the text for the reader

Suspense  

400

He gets a long nose

Pinocchio

500


to clearly show

demonstrate

500

a type of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing or quality is talked about as if it were human

personificati

500

Conflict between man and an element of nature

Man Vs. Nature  

500

There is a deer in this movie

Bambi