poetry Flashcards
A group of words aranged in a row
Lines
A group of lines
Stanza
words that end in the same sound
rhyme
a way of aranging the sounds or beats in poetry: A rythimc pattern
meter
The use of words that begin with the same sound near one another
alliteration
The creation of words that imatate natural sounds
onomantiopia
a pharse that uses the words like or as to describe something by comparing it to something that is similer
simile
The comparision of one thing to another by describing it as being the same as another otherwise unrelated object ( does NOT use the words like oe as)
metaphor
attributing human charestirestics to something nonhuman
personification
an exaderated statment
Hyperbole
an expression that cannot be understood from the meaning of its seprate words but that has a meaning of its own
idom
the author of a poem
poet
The voice that narrorates a poem
speaker
the speakers attitude toward his or her subject
tone
Poetry is a type of _________ that uses ________ eleamants of language to express thoughts and emotions
literature, musical
