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A Life's Journey Through Poetry

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• Alliteration - repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

• Atmosphere - mood or overall feeling that a story or poem conveys

• Free Verse- lines with no prescribed pattern, structure, or rhyme

• Haiku - unrhymed poem of three lines of five, seven, and five syllables; usually includes an image from nature

• Imagery - descriptive or figurative language that creates word pictures (appeals to the five senses)

• Metaphor - compares unlike things by writing or speaking about one thing as if it were another

• Narrative poem - tells a story with one or more characters, a setting, a conflict, and a series of events that come to a conclusion

• Personification  - describes an object, animal, or idea as if it had human characteristics

• Poem - a work of literature in verse that often, but not necessarily, employs meter, rhyme, or figurative language in an attempt to communicate an aesthetic experience or statement

• Repetition - repeated words

• Rhyme - words that have the same sound

• Simile  - compares unlike things using the word like or as

• Speaker - voice behind the poem, point of view

• Stanza - a group of lines in a poem; acts like a paragraph in a poem

• Symbol - object or action that stands for something beyond itself (Statue of Liberty = freedom, United States, etc)

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