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| Alliteration | repetition of initial consonant sounds within a line of poetry |
| Consonance | repetition of final consonant sounds within a line of poetry |
| Assonance | repetition of internal vowel sounds within a line of poetry |
| Repeated | repeated words or phrases to create emphasis |
| Refrain | repeated line of poetry at the end or beginning of a stanza |
| Onomatopoeia | the sound of the word conveys the meaning |
| Rhyme | repetition of sounds at the ends of words. Samevowel and consonant sounds in last stressed syllable |
| Internal rhyme | words within a line of poetry rhyme |
| End rhyme | words at the end of a line of poetry rhyme with other words at the end of another line |
| Blank verse | unrhymed lines of poetry |
| Figurative Language | any way of saying something other than the ordinary way - cannot be taken literally |
| Simile | comparison of two dissimilar objects using "like", "as", "similar to", "resembles", "seems", etc. |
| Metaphor | comparison fo two dissimilar objects that is implied (without "like" or "as") |
| Personification | giving non-human things human qualities or characteristics |
| Apostrophe | addressing something dead as living or something non-human as human as if it could answer |
| Symbol | something that respresents something in addition to itself |
| Hyperbole | an exaggeration to create an effect |
| Paradox | an apparent contradiciton that is somehow true |
| Irony | saying one thing and meaning another |
| Allusion | reference to a famous person, place, thing, or event |
| Connotation | implied meaning of a word (emotional associations) |
| Poetic License | violation of a technical rule for effect |
| Diction | word choice, using a more sophisticated, effective vocabulary |
| Oxymoron | is a concise paradox in which two successuve words seemingly contradict each other |
