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Question | Answer |
Alliteration | The repetition of words beginning with the same letter. To draw attention to a particular sound or movement, to intensify or bind words together. |
Allusion | A word/phrase that suggests something else. If many people can relate to it. It allows you to connect with the subject matter of the poem. |
Ambiguity | a word/phrase that could mean more than one thing to get the reader thinking about the different possibilities of the word or phrase. |
Anthropomorphism | Giving human characteristics to an animal. Connecting us to the animal being described. |
Assonance | The repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds that follow each other, same purpose as alliteration. |
Caesura | Break in the middle of a line in poetry such as (, or - ) which can serve as a pause or or change in meaning. |
Connotation | An idea or feeling that is often associated with a word or phrase. |
Ellipsis | ... |
Enjambment | one line is continued onto the next line. |
Euphemism | a word or expression used instead of saying something that may be awkward. |
Free Verse | No rhythm or rhyme |
Imagery | Use of word-pictures. Painting a picture in the readers mind. |
Metaphor | Like the simile. Comparing one thing to another; but says that it is something instead of like something. |
Onomatopoeia | Use of words which sound like the thing they sound (i.e. smash) |
Oxymoron | A phrase combining two terms that are complete opposites. (I.e. The light dark) |
Pathetic Fallacy | Using the weather or something natural to describe the mood (I.e. stormy- something bad is going to happen) |
Personification | Giving human qualities to things that aren't human. |
Pun | Play on words |
Repetition | Repeating a word or phrase. Emphasizing what you repeat. |
Rhyme | using words that have matching sounds. |
Rhythm | Pattern of beats created by the words in a poem. |
Sibilance | Characterized by hissing s. sh. z conjures an aural impression for the reader. |
Similies | Comparing one thing to another using the words 'like' or 'as'. |
Sonnet | Traditional poem what is one stanza, and is always 14 lines long and has a rhyming couplet at the end. |
Tone | General mood or atmosphere that is communicated in the poem. often by the way in which something is expressed. |
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