8Th Grade Poetry Vocabulary

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Simile

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Comparing two things using ''like or as''

E.X.=Gaby can eat as much as a cow

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Metaphor

Back 2

Comparing two things without using "like or as"

E.X.=John is a cheetah

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Personification

Back 3

Giving an object or animal human qualities

E.X.=The clouds in the sky were roaring like crazy

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Idiom

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A group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words

E.X.Its rainning

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Hyperbole

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Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

E.X.The popcorn was bigger than my head

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Alliteration

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Nearby words that begin with the same sound

E.X.=Carlos cant create his own creation

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Onomatopoiea

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The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named

E.X. Boom, bang, pow

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Internal Rhyme

Back 8

A rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next.

E.X. Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary

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Rhyme Scheme

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the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse.

E.X.

Roses are red

Violets are blue

Beautiful they all may be

But I love you

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Meter

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The measured arrangement of words in poetry, as by accentual rhythm, syllabic quantity, or the number of syllables in a line.

E.X.That time l of year l thou mayst l in me l behold

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Capital letters

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The form of an alphabetical letter (such as A, B, C) used to begin a sentence or proper noun; an uppercase letter, in contrast to lower case

E.X.

By the sixth and seventh centuries the various letter forms we now use had been invented . . .. From the ninth century on all writing in the Latin alphabet, in whatever style or hand, used capital and small-letter pairs as we do now."

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Line Length

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When a poet writes in iambic pentameters, the length of the lines is determined by the form chosen to a significant extent.

E.X.

True wit is nature to advantage dress’d;

What oft was thought, but ne’er so well express’d.”

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word position

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a place where someone or something is located or has been put.

E.X.

a poem has stanzas