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Some Poetry Terms You Need to Know Directions: Find a definition for each term.

Use examples if necessary Alliteration

Allusion

Anaphora

Assonance

Asyndeton

Consonance

Denotation and Connotation

Figurative Language

Focalization

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Heterometric

Hyperbole

Idiom

Imagery

Irony

Isometric

Metaphor

Meter

Metonymy

Musical Devices

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Narrator

Onomatopoeia

Oxymoron

Paradox

Parallelism

Personification

Polysyndeton

Rhythm

Rhyme

Rhyme Scheme

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Simile

Sonnet

Stanza

Symbol

Synecdoche

Syntax

Theme

Tone

Versification

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