Poetry Vocabulary: Review

Vocabulary 1

100

the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of or closely connected words.

a. imagery

b. simile

c. alliteration

c.Alliteration

200

overall feelings: emotions in poetry

a. alliteration

b. attitude

c. mood

c. mood

300

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describes the organization of words and lines in a poem as well as its rhyme scheme and meter. 

a. poetic structure

b. rhyme scheme

c. speaker

a. poetic Structure

400

the pattern formed by rhyming words at the end of lines

a. rhyme

b. rhythm

a. Rhyme 

500

The "extra" meanings that surround a word

Connotation

Vocabulary 2

100

language used for descriptive effect, often to illustrate or imply ideas indirectly

a. poetry

b. graphical element

c. figurative language

c. Figurative Language

200

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Two rhyming lines together, used to convey a thought

Couplet

300

expressing one's feelings and ideas by writing phrases using a special style, rhythm, or other structure

a. sound device

b. poetry

c. imagery

b. Poetry

400

patterns of unstressed and stressed syllables in a line of poetry

a. sound device

b. rhythm

c. meter

b. Rhythm

500

voice of the poem

a. speaker

b. tone

c. mood

a. Speaker

Vocabulary 3

100

visually descriptive or figurative language

a. rhyme

b. sound device

c. imagery

c. Imagery

200

can be a sentence, phrase, or single word

a. line

b. stanza

c. paragraph

a. Line

300

repetition of the same or similar sounds

a. sound device

b. rhyme

c. rhythm

b. Rhyme

400

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using the words like or as to compare two seemingly unlike things

a. metaphor

b. personification

c. simile

c. Simile

500

one or more lines of poetry and is similar to a paragraph in other types of writing

a. paragraph

b. stanza

c. line

b. Stanza

Vocabulary 4

100

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compare to seemingly unlike things without using like or as

c. mood

b. Metaphor

200

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- Unit 1 Vocabulary- 

A certain form of something

Version

300

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expresses the writer's, speaker's or narrator's attitude toward his or her subject matter

a. tone

b. voice

c. mood

A. Tone

400

Indirect references to other works. 

Like the Bible or Myths

Allusions

500

Fig Lang-word from a sound

C. onomatopoeia

Vocabulary 5

100

the emotional atmosphere of the literary work

a. speaker

b. imagery

c. mood

C. Mood

200

a figure of speech in which an animal, object, force of nature, or an idea is given human qualities

B. Personification

300

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exaggerated statements (ex. I 'm so tired, I can sleep forever.)

B. Hyperbole

400

Kevin is a sloth.

B. Metaphor

500

Lightning danced across the sky. 

C. Personification