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Poetry |
Definition: The art of rhythmical composition
Example: roses are red, violets are blue, I like doughnuts...doughnuts are good :) |
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Personification |
Definition: Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects
Example: The house moaned as the wind started to make it shake. |
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Similie |
Definition: Comparing one thing to another in a way that they are alike or different
Example: My sister is like tech support, she will play annoying music a lot of the time, but the other times she just talks. |
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Metaphor |
Definition: A phrase in which it is not to be taken literally and is to be thought about in a different way
Example: I felt like the world wanted to swallow me |
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Idiom |
Definition: A statement that is not to be taken literally and is commonly used
Example: It was raining cats and dogs! |
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Hyperbole |
Definition: A idea that is exaggerated extremely
Example: I walked a thousand miles before I finally reached my house! |
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Alliteration |
Definition: Nearby words that begin with the same sound
Example: Fussy Phyllis fakes feeling fashionable |
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onomatopoeia |
Definition: A word that is used to make a sound
Example: Blam! Pop! Boom! |
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Internal rhyme |
Definition: A scheme in which the word in the middle of one line sounds the same as the word at the end or the word in the middle of the next line
Example: Gonna shoot some hoops in my driveway chute on my new backboard |
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Rhyme Scheme |
Definition: The way in poem where the end of each line rhymes with the next one or the one after that
Example: Got some bottles of cherry coke hope I don't drink to much and choke |
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Meter |
Definition: The rhythm of a piece of poetry determined by the length of each line
Example: 5 words ---> In the river there's water 4 words ---> with a alligator frog |
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Capital Letter |
Definition: Shows importance in the word you capitalize
Example: i like Bacon and Girls |
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Line Lenght |
Definition: How long a line is in a poem
Example: 3 words ---> so about Ebola |
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Word Position |
Definition: Where a word is in the line of a poem
Example: And every time i like in >YOUR< eyes |
