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Figurative Language
Miscellaneous
Types of Poems
Story Vocabulary 1
Story Vocabulary 2
100
a literary form that uses precise diction to evoke the emotions, sounds, and rhythms associated with language
What is poetry?
100
the use of a word whose sound imitates its meaning
What is onomatopoeia?
100
the repetition of the initial consonant sounds of words (think of tongue twisters)
What is alliteration?
100
a fourteen-line lyric poem with formal patterns of rhyme, rhythm, and structure.
What is a sonnet?
100
deeply or seriously thoughtful
What is pensive?
200
groupings of lines
What are stanzas?
200
Descriptive language used to create word pictures.
What is imagery?
200
tells a story in verse
What is a narrative poem?
200
put off until a future point
What is deferred?
200
the state of being alone; seclusion
What is solitude?
300
used to compare two apparently unlike things without using the words like, as, than, or resembles
What are metaphors?
300
provides details related to the senses
What is sensory language?
300
tells a story using a character's own thoughts or statements
What is a dramatic poem?
300
become infected; form pus
What is fester?
300
that cannot be passed through; that cannot be solved or understood
What is impenetrable?
400
make comparisons using connecting words
What are similes?
400
a pattern of end rhymes
What is rhyme scheme?
400
expresses the feelings of a single speaker, creating a single effect on the reader
What is a lyric poem?
400
empty; having little to no vegetation
What is barren?
400
from an earlier time; ancient
What is archaic?
500
attributes human qualities to non-human things
What is personification?
500
has no set meter or rhyme scheme
What is free verse?
500
a verse form with three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables
What is haiku?
500
seemingly full of contradictions
What is paradoxical?
500
showing colors that seem to change in different light
What is iridescent?