Poetry Vocab Flashcards

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Metaphor

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Compares two things

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2
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Simile

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Compares two things using like or as

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3
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Personification

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Life qualities to something that is not alive

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4
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Hyperbole

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Huge exaggeration

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5
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Symbolism

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Symbolizes something

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6
Q

Alliteration

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Repeating sounds, tough twisters

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7
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Onomatopoeia

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Sound affects to add Shazam

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8
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Allusion

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Brief reference to some place or event

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9
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Connotation

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Emotional suggestive to a word

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10
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Denotation

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Literal meaning of the word

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11
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Lines

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poetry is written in lines

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12
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Stanzas

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Paragraph, but in poetry

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13
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Assonance

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Repetition of vowel sounds

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14
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Anthology

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Collection

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15
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Rhyme

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Repition of sounds at end of words

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16
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Repetition

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repeated use of sound