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| Imagery | refers to words or phrases that appeal to the five senses (sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch). |
| Figurative Language | using words or phrases that help the reader picture ordinary things in new ways |
| Simile | a comparison of two different things using like, as, or than |
| Metaphor | a comparison of two different things that does NOT use the words like, as, or than |
| Hyperbole | an exaggeration that something either has much more or much less of a quantity than it actually has |
| Onomatopoeia | the use of a word whose sound makes you think of its meaning |
| Personification | giving human qualitites to ideas, objects or animals |
| Theme | the message about life that the writer conveys |
| Mood | the emotion you feel when you read a poem (happy, sad, scared, angry...) |
| Tone | the writer's attitude toward a subject (serious, humorous, loving...) |
| Form | the way a poem is arranged on the page |
| Line | a poem is made up of these, which may or may not be sentences |
| Stanza | a group of lines that divide a poem into sections |
| Sound | the way poets arrange words to create sounds they want the listener to hear |
| Rhyme | is when two or more words have the same sound |
| End rhyme | a rhyme occurring at the end of two or more lines |
| Rhyme scheme | the organized pattern of rhyme in a poem |
| Rhythm | the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry. It is often called the beat. |
| Repetition | when the poet repeats sounds, words, phrases, or whole lines in a poem |
| Alliteration | the repetition of beginning consonant sounds in words |
| Refrain | a phrase, verse, or group of verses repeated at intervals throughout a song or poem |
