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3rd nine weeks poetry terms
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7th Grade
01/11/2009

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Poetry
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A kind of rhythmic, compressed language that uses figures of speech and imaginary designed to appeal to emotion and imagination.
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Speaker
Definition
The voice talking in a poem.
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Simile
Definition
A comparison between 2 unlike things using a word such as like, as, than, or resembles.
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Metaphor
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An imaginative comparison between 2 um unlike things in which one thing is said to be another thing; doesn't use like or as.
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Imaginary
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Language that appeals to senses.
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Personification
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A figure of speech in which a non human or nonliving thing or quality is talked about as if it were human or alive.
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Alliteration
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The repetition of the same words or very similar consonant sounds in words that are close together.
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