What is a poem? - a group of words in a form other than an essay which communicate a message or feeling, What is hyperbole? (hy-PER-buh-lee) - exaggeration used for emphasis or humor, What is a simile? - comparison of 2 unlike objects using "like" or "as", What is a metaphor? - a comparison of 2 unlike things by saying that one thing is a dissimilar object or thing, What is rhyme? - words that sound the same, What is rhythm? - sound pattern with accents placed on certain words, What is imagery? - pictures created by words, What is a stanza? - form of a poem-group of words separated like a paragraph, What is personification? - giving human qualities to nonhuman things, What is an idiom? - a group of words whose collective meaning is different than their literal meaning, What is an allusion? - a reference to a person, place, or event from literature, sports, history, movies, or the arts, What is onomatopoeia? - words whose sounds suggest their meaning, What is verse? - another word for poems often used line by line, What is tone? - the writer's attitude toward his subject and audience, What is alliteration? - the repetition of the first consonant sound in neighboring words, What is mood? - the atmosphere, or emotion, in the poem created by the poet,

Poetry/Fig. Lang. Terms

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