poems the express thoughts and feelings of a single speaker, usually musical.
What is lyric?
100
written language that uses precise words chosen for sounds and meaning.
What is poetry?
100
repetition of beginning sounds in words
What is alliteration?
100
writing that is imaginative and not meant to be taken literally.
What is figurative language?
100
example:
fat as I cow
What is a simile?
200
poem that tells a story in verse, often has a plot, setting, characters
What is narrative?
200
helps poet add natural pauses by breaking a poem into individual parts
What is line?
200
repetition of the vowel sounds with different final consonant sounds.
What is assonance?
200
writing or speech that appeals to one or more senses- sight, sound, smell, taste, touch
What is sensory language?
200
example:
Life is a highway.
What is a metaphor?
300
defined by its lack of structure. It does not have to rhyme or have a regular meter. lines do not have to be a specific length, there may be no stanza pattern.
What is free verse?
300
arrangement of a group of lines to create appearance on the page.
What is stanza?
300
repetition of the final consonant sound in words after different vowels sounds.
What is consonance?
300
uses like or as to compare 2 unlike things.
What is a simile?
300
example
The trees whispered in the breeze.
What is personification?
400
poem in which the words are arranged on the page to form a shape that suggests the topic of the poem.
What is concrete?
400
pattern of rhyme. It is described with letters that represent the different sounds.
What is rhyme scheme?
400
repeated use of words
What is repetition?
400
describes one thing as if it were another
What is a metaphor?
400
happy cat swam
What is assonance?
500
a pair of rhyming lines that usually have the same meter.
What is rhyming couplet?
500
If I can stop one heart from breaking (a)
I shall not live in vain (b)
If I can ease one life the aching (a)
or cool one pain (b)
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