Friday, December 16, 2016

poetry TERMS

ALLITERATION - Repeated sounds as in tongue twisters.

IMAGES - Mental images/figurative language.

POETRY - An imaginative awareness of experience expressed through meaning, sound, and rhythmic language choices so as to evoke an emotional response.

RHYTHM - A movement or flow characterized by a beat or accent.

METAPHORS - A comparison of unlike things WITHOUT like or as.

SIMILES - Comparing unlike things using like, as, and as though.

PATTERNS - A predictable routine.

COUPLET - Pairs of rhyming lines in a verse.

STANZA - A group of lines which form a separate segment.

BALLAD - A story, a narrative poem written in 4 line stanzas.

FREE VERSE - Poem composed of variable, usually un-rhymed lines having no fixed pattern.

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