Poetry Terms

Pregunta	Respuesta
Alliteration	Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each word
Assonance	The repetition of similar vowels in successive words
Enjambment	Continuation from one line of verse into the next line
Metaphor	A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
Rhyme	Correspondence in the final sounds of two or more lines
Couplet	A stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse
Free Verse	poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter
Foreshadowing	The act of providing vague advance indications
Hyperbole	Extravagant exaggeration
Onomatopeia	Using words that imitate the sound they denote
Stanza	A fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem
Simile	A figure of speech expressing a resemblance between things
Personification	Attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas

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