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| Question | Answer |
| Poetry | a type of literature, or artistic writing, that attempts to stir a reader's imagination or emotions |
| forms | shape the poem takes |
| lines | lines of a poem |
| stanza | an arrangement of a certain number of lines, usually four or more, sometimes having a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme, forming a division of a poem |
| sound | the way the poem sounds using alliteration, repetition, rhyme, rhythm, onomatopoeia, etc. |
| free verse | verse that does not follow a fixed metrical pattern. |
| imagery | the formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or of such images collectively |
| figurative language | language that contains or uses figures of speech, especially metaphors |
| figures of speech | any expressive use of language, as a metaphor, simile, personification, by which the usual or literal meaning of a word is not used |
| simile | a comparison of 2 or more things using the words like or as |
| metaphor | a comparison of 2 or more things |
| hyperbole | an extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally |
| personification | the attribution of human nature or character to animals, inanimate objects, or abstract notions |
| theme | the message about life the author wants us to learn |
| symbol | a word or phrase used to represent something else |
| haiku | a major form of Japanese verse, written in 17 syllables divided into 3lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables, and employing highly evocative allusions and comparisons, often on the subject of nature or one of the seasons. |
| limerick | a kind of humorous verse of five lines, in which the first, second, and fifth lines rhyme with each other, and the third and fourth lines, which are shorter, form a rhymed couplet |
| ballad | a simple narrative poem of folk origin, composed in short stanzas and adapted for singing |
| rhyme scheme | the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse |
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