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36 Terms
Simile
Comparing two things using like or as
metaphor
Comparing two things without using like or as
personification
Giving non human things, human emotions
Idiom
a word or phrase that is not meant to be taken seriously
hyperbole
an extreme exaduration
imagery
using words to paint a picture
the 5 types of imagery
Visual, olfactory, gustatory, tactile, auditory
a line
a row of words in a poem
Stanza
A group of lines in a poem
A rhyme scheme is?
a Pattern of words rhyming at the end of a word in a poem
a stanza with two lines
couplet
a stanza with 3 lines
tercert
a stanza with 4 lines
quatrain
a stanza with 5 lines
cinquain
a stanza with 6 lines
sestet
a stanza with 7 lines
septet
a stanza with 8 lines
Octave
what is a end stopped?
Lines usually broken with a coma, period, semicolon or other punctuation
Enjambment
a continuation of a sentence of a line break, the thought runs on from one stanza to the next.
caesura
a strong pause or stop with a line
Topic
The general subject of the poem, names places, character
Theme
the life lesson, what can be learned from the poem
an acrostic poem is?
a poem in which words are spelled out through the first letters.
Ballad
a narrative poem that shares a story
Free verse
lacks a constant rhyme scheme, metrical pattern or musical form.
Sonnet
follows a ridged structure with 14 lines
Villanelle
19 lines, 5 tercet, 1 quatrain, two lines repeat
Haiku
a poem with 3 lines, with a syllable count of 5, 7, 5
Concrete
written in the shape of shape that the poem is written about
Ode
a poem to praise a person place or thing
Blank verse
no rhyme, every line has 10 syllables
Epic
a long heroic journey about a person or people
Elegy
a mournful poem, in honor of the dead
couplet
two lines that rhyme constantly
extended metaphor
a drawn out metaphor that is extended several liens of a poem
Limerick
a humorous or nonsensical poem composed of 5 lines with the rhyme scheme AABBA