Poetry vocab for exam
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- Personifaction
- Giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea.
- Tone
- Of a work is the writers attitude toward his or her subject.
- Analogy
- Point-by-point comparison between two apparently dissimilar things made to clasify certain point about one of them.
- Onomatopeia
- Use of words whose sound suggests their meaning.
- Voice
- Writers or narrators voice is his or her unique style of expression.
- Symbol
- Person, a place, an object, or an action that stands for something beyond itself.
- Stanza
- Group of lines with a poem.
- Metaphor
- Comparisn of two things that have somee quality in common.
- Hyperbole
- Authors use of exaggeration or overstatement for emphasis.
- Rhythm
- Of a line of poetry is the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in the line.
- Alliteration
- Repition of a sound or letter at the begining of words.Emphasize particular words and give writing a musical quaility.
- Figurative Language
- Creates fresh and original expressing cannot be interpreted literally, helps traders picture ordinary things in new ways.
- Imagery
- Consists of words and phrases the appeal to readers senses.
- Rythm
- Repitition of sounds at the end of words.
- Idiom
- Expression that has a meaning different from the meaning of its individual words.
- Poetry
- Type of literature in which ideas and feelings are expressed in compact, imaginative, and musical language.
- Irony
- Contrast between what is expecteed and what actually exists or happened.
- Allusion
- Reference to a famous person, place, event, or work of literature.