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 POETRY AS WE SEE IT- Review Website ** POETRY TERMS: **

** Line ** A single line that makes up a poem-- two or more lines make up a stanza Two or more lines of poetry that together form one of the divisions of a poem. The stanzas of a poem are usually of the same length and follow the same pattern of meter and rhyme.
 * Stanza **

A couplet has rhyming stanzas each made up of two lines.
 * Couplet **

A phrase, line, or group of lines that is repeated throughout a poem, usually after every stanza. A rhyme has the repetition of the same or similar sounds at the end of two or more words most often at the ends of lines.
 * Refrain (repetition) **
 * Rhyme **

__**LITERARY DEVICES:**__

The repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds at the beginning of words. Some famous examples of alliteration are tongue twisters such as Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
 * Alliteration **

Imagery draws the reader into poetic experiences by touching on the images and senses which the reader already knows  A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis. Many everyday expressions are examples of hyperbole: tons of money, waiting for ages, a flood of tears, I told you a million times, etc. A figure of speech in which words are used to imitate sounds. Examples of onomatopoeic words are buzz, hiss, zing, clippety-clop, cock-a-doodle-do, pop, splat, thump, and tick-tock. A figure of speech in which nonhuman things or abstract ideas are given human attributes: the sky is crying, dead leaves danced in the wind, blind justice. A figure of speech in which two things are compared using the word "like" or "as." An example of a simile using like occurs in Langston Hughes' poem Harlem: "What happens to a dream deferred?/ Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?" A figure of speech in which two things are compared, usually by saying one thing IS another, or by substituting a more descriptive word for the more common or usual word that would be expected. Some examples of metaphors: the world's a stage, he was a lion in battle, drowning in debt, and a sea of troubles.
 * Imagery **
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