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english
vocab
14 cards·by 16debberts
prose
written language that is not versified; novels, short stories, and essays are usually
written in prose
poetry
A form of literary expression that differs from Prose in emphasizing the line, rather than the
sentence, as a unit of composition
Narrative Poetry
verse that tells a story
Dramatic poetry
verse that tells a story
lyric poetry
poetry that expresses A speakers personal thoughts and feelings
simile
Uses like or as to comparing seemingly like things
metaphor
compares two seemingly um-like things using like or as
personification
something given human characteristics
Imagery
the word pictures that writers Create to envoke an emotional response using descriptions
that appeal to one of the five senses
oxymoron
opposite ideas are combined for effect
blank verse
poetry written inUnrhymed iabic but nasa rhythm
free verse
has no fixed pattern of meter. FREE
Stanza
group of lines Forming a unit in A poem
couplet
two constructive lines of Poetry, usually unrhymed forming A Stanza