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  • What is a stanza?
    a paragraph of text within a poem
  • What is a juxtaposition?
    two contrasting images next to each other
  • What is arch rhyme?
    Rhyme that follows an ABAB-CDCD-EFEF pattern
  • What is a metaphor?
    comparing something by saying IT IS something, when it actually isn't
  • What is sibilance?
    repetition of words with 's' in
  • What is a hyperbole?
    exaggerated statements
  • What is personification?
    giving a noun human qualities
  • What is free verse?
    A poem that does not rhyme or have a regular rhythm
  • What is an oxymoron?
    two contradictions next to each other
  • What is enjambment?
    When a single sentence runs across multiple lines of poetry
  • What is meter?
    the way in which rhythm is measured in a poem
  • What is form?
    how we describe the structure of the poem
  • What is a sonnet?
    a 14-line poem with a specific structure and rhyme scheme, usually about love
  • What is an iamb?
    When there are two syllables and the second is stressed
  • What is onomatopoeia?
    a word with a sound associated with the noise it makes
  • What is a quatrain?
    A stanza that is 4 lines long
  • What is alliteration?
    same first letter of words next to each other
  • What is caesura?
    punctuation in the middle of the line which creates a pause
  • What is assonance?
    repetition of a vowel sound
  • What is alternating rhyme?
    Rhyme that follows an ABAB-CDCD-EFEF pattern
  • What is a semantic field?
    a collection of words related to each other
  • What is a plosive consonant?
    an abrupt sound made by B, P, T and D consonants
  • What is a ballad?
    a type of narrative poem, often set to music, that tells a story in short, rhyming stanzas usually about something sad
  • What is antithesis?
    a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else
  • What is a simile?
    comparing something using 'like' or 'as'
  • What are rhyming couplets?
    Rhyme that follows an AA-BB-CC-DD pattern
  • What is anaphora?
    repeating the same phrase at the beginning of each line
  • What is end-stopping?
    When a line end with a full stop
  • What is a volta?
    A change in mood within a poem. Commonly seen in sonnets
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