Poem vocabs
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- Alliteration
- Its a repition of the inital consonant sound in two or more words in a line of poetry
- Concrete Poem
- Its a poem that verbally and graphically portrays the subject matter
- Onomatopoeia
- Its a word or a grouping of words that imitates the sound it is describing
- Stanza
- They are divisions in poems named for the number of lines it contains
- Sonnet
- It is a poem containing fourteen lines that usually expresses one idea
- Haiku
- it is a japenese short poem that is composed of 3 unrhymed lines of 5,7,5 syllables
- Repetition
- Its using a word or phrase more than once
- Tone
- Its the poet's attitude toward the subject and/or the reader
- Assonance
- Its a repitition of vowel sounds but not consonant sounds
- Personification
- Its giving human traits to non-living objects
- Ode
- It is a single, unified strain of lofty verse with a single purpose and dealing with a single theme
- Epic
- These are a long narrative poems that usually tell of heroic deeds and events in history or religous/mythological events.
- Couplet
- Its two, consecutive rhymed lines of poetry