English Literary Terms Poetry
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Speaker
The voice talking to us in a poem; the narrator
Stanza
a group of consecutive lines that form a unit and poetry; a paragraph
Imagery
language that appeals to the senses; can be sight, sound, taste, touch, or smell
Free Verse
poetry with no set pattern of rhyme, rhythm or line length
meter
pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables within a line of poetry
Figurative language
language not meant to be taken literally; usually compressions and vivid express expressions; simiks, metaphors and personification are types of this
Simile
a comparison of two unlike things using like her as
Metaphor
a comparison of two unlike things that does not use like or as
Personification
type of figurative language or something non-human is given human characteristics
Couplet
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
Tone
the writers attitude towards a object
Alliteration
The reputation of getting constant sounds two or more consecutive words
Onomatopoeia
the formation of a word form a sound associated with what is named
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