La Poetry Words

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Mood

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The emotional tone or "atmosphere" of the poem. A poem about a storm at night may create a dark mood for the nature, or pain will create different moods in readers.

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Form

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Poets usually use rhyme and rhythm to enhance their language choice.

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Imagery

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poetry relies heavily on imagery, using vivid descriptive language to describe objects, moods or ideas. since most poems are relatively short, poets rely on imagery to create a picture in readers' minds.

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Hyperbole

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A hyperbole is an exaggeration for the purpose of emphasis.

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Metaphor

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A metaphor compares 2 different things not using like or as: Life is but a toy that swings on a bright gold chain, and he has a heart of stone

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Simile

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A comparison between two different things using like or as: how like a winter hath my absence been, and she is as pretty as a picture.

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Symbolism

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is the representation of idea or things by other images or things- When reading the poem below ask, "What does the wheelbarrow represent"

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Personification

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The giving of human qualities to animals, ideas or objects.

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Onomatopoeia

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Words that sound like the things that name or imitate the sound they make.

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Repetition

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Using a word more than once in the same or nearby sentences for effect or make a point.

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Alliteration

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The same sound is used at the start of a series of words.

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Assonance

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When the internal parts of a series of words is the same.

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Paradox

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When a phrase seems to contradict itself.

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Stanza

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A group of lines in a poem, separated by a space.

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Narrative Poem

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A poem which tells a story.

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Allusion

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A reference to a famous piece of art, music or literature.

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Couplet

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2 lines in a poem that have the same rhyme.

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Rhyme Scheme

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A pattern of rhyme that a poem follows.

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Shape Poems

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Shape is used to add meaning to a poem.

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Meter

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The measure of beats in a poem.

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Free Verse

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When a poem does not follow a set meter or rhyme scheme.