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Poetry Vocabulary

Poetry Vocabulary . Stanza. Definition: a group of consecutive lines that forms a single unit. Example: . Figurative language. Definition: l anguage that uses words in forms other than their literal sense. Example: Similes Metaphors Personification . simile. Definition:

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Poetry Vocabulary

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  1. Poetry Vocabulary

  2. Stanza • Definition: • a group of consecutive lines that forms a single unit • Example:

  3. Figurative language • Definition: • language that uses words in forms other than their literal sense • Example: • Similes • Metaphors • Personification

  4. simile • Definition: • a comparison between two unlike things, using words such as likeoras • Example: • Her hair was as golden as sunshine

  5. metaphor • Definition: • comparison between two unlike things where one thing is said to be like the other • Example: • I was a lonely, wandering cloud

  6. Extended metaphor • Definition: • a metaphor that is developed, or extended through several lines or the whole selection • Example: • Cars are little blood cells, we are oxygen • City is the airway, suburbs appendages

  7. imagery • Definition: • language that appeals to the senses • Example: • Over the cobbles he clattered and clashed in the dark inn yard.

  8. personification • Definition: • a nonhuman or nonliving thing or quality is talked about as if it were human or alive • Example: • The sun played hide and seek with the clouds.

  9. tone • Definition: • The attitude that a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character • Example:

  10. alliteration • Definition: • the repetition of the same or very similar consonant sounds in words that are close together • Example: • And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain.

  11. onomatopoeia • Definition: • the use of words whose sounds echo their sense • Example: • Oh, the bells, bells, bells! . . . How they clang, and crash, and roar!

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