6Ela Poetry Vocabulary

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Prose

Back 1

Ordinary Writing

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Figurative Language

Back 2

Comparisons;

Examples: metaphor,simile,

personification.

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Lines

Back 3

Rows of words.

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Repetition

Back 4

A repeating pattern

of sounds, words,

phrases, or lines.

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Rhyme

Back 5

A repeating pattern in

the final sounds

of the words.

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Sensory Language

Back 6

Words that describe

how things look,

smell, taste, feel,

and sound.

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Imagery

Back 7

Language that

suggests how

someone or

something looks,

sounds, feels, smells.

or tastes.

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Lyric Poems

Back 8

Have musical quality;

main purpose is to

express emotions or thoughts.

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Narrative Poetry

Back 9

Main purpose is to tell
a story; often
has a beginning,
middle, and end.

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Genre

Back 10

Types of literature.

Poetry is one

type of genre.

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Acrostic

Back 11

A poem where the

first letter of

each line spells

a word.

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Free Verse

Back 12

Poetry without any

fixed pattern.

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Haiku

Back 13

17 syllables, from
Japan. Three lines-
5 syllables,7 syllables,
5 syllables.

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Stanza

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A group of lines.