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Elements of Poetry
Elements of Poetry terms
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Literature
7th Grade
01/10/2010

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Personification
Definition
A figure of speech in which a nonhuman thing or quality is talked about as if it were human
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Metaphor
Definition
An imaginative comparison between two unlike things in which one thing is said to be another
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Imagery
Definition
Language that appeals to the senses
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Connotation
Definition
The feelings and associations that a word suggests
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Denotation
Definition
The literal, dictionary definition of a word
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Tone
Definition
The attitude that a writer takes toward the audiance, a subject or a character
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Alliteration
Definition
The repetition of the same or very similar constant sounds in words that are close together
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Onomatopoeia
Definition
The use of words with sounds that echo their sense
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Rhyme
Definition
The repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words close together in a poem
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Rhythm
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A musical quality produced by the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables or by the repetition of certain other sound patterns
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Meter
Definition
a regular pattern of rhythm in traditional poetry
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Free Verse
Definition
Poetry without a regular meter or a rhyme scheme
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Repetition
Definition
The recurring use of a sound, a word, a phrase, or a line.
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