poem vocab
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- figurative language
- words or phrases used in such a way as to suggest more than just their usual dictionary meanings
- onomatipoeia
- the use of words whose sounds suggest their meaning
- assonance
- the repetiotion of vowel sounds within words
- rhythm
- the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem
- theme
- the insight or message that an author conveys ina piece of writing
- connotation
- the associations and added meanings surronding a word that are not part of its literal meaning
- denotation
- the excact dictionary meaning of a word
- free verse
- is poetry that does not have fixed rhythm rhymr meter or line lenghth
- alliteration
- the repeated consonant sounds occuring at the begginging of words or within words
- personification
- a figure of speech in which human charactirestices are assigned to non-human things
- metophor
- a figure of speech that involes a comparison between two unlike things that does not use words like or as
- lyric
- a poem that has a single speaker short stanzes and expresses a deeply felt thought or emotion
- tone
- the authors expressed attitude toward the subjects in a literary work
- imagery
- concrete words that appeal to the senses sight smell taste feel sound
- stanza
- a group of lines in a poem usally four or more forming a division in a poem
- simile
- a comparision in which the word like or as is used to compare two unlike thingthat does not use the words like or as
- rhyme
- the repetiotion of syllable sound