Poetry terms

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Poetry terms for Years 7 and 8
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  1. metaphor
    a figure of speech that suggests a non-literal similarity
  2. simile
    a figure of speech expressing a resemblance between things
  3. onomatopoeic
    (of words) formed in imitation of a natural sound
  4. personification
    attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas
  5. anthropomorphic
    suggesting human features for animals or inanimate things
  6. assonance
    the repetition of similar vowels in successive words
  7. alliteration
    use of the same consonant at the beginning of each word
  8. stanza
    a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem
  9. theme
    a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in literary work
  10. quatrain
    a stanza of four lines
  11. limerick
    a humorous rhymed verse form of five lines
  12. haiku
    an epigrammatic Japanese verse form of three short lines
  13. ballad
    a narrative poem of popular origin
  14. ode
    a lyric poem with complex stanza forms
  15. elegy
    a mournful poem; a lament for the dead
  16. sonnet
    a verse form of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme
  17. rhythm
    alternation of stressed and unstressed elements in speech
  18. mood
    a characteristic state of feeling
  19. atmosphere
    distinctive but intangible quality around a person or thing
  20. analogy
    drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity
Created on Wed Apr 25 06:40:50 EDT 2012 (updated Wed Apr 25 06:46:53 EDT 2012)

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