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| Figure of Speech | words or expressions that have more than one literal meaning; such as an hyperbole, metaphor, simile or personification |
| Alliteration | repetition of the same initial consonant sounds usually in poetry or prose |
| Simile | a figure of speech or comparison using words such as like, than or as to describe something |
| Metaphor | a figure of speech or comparison that does not use direct comparison; when one thing is spoken or written as if it were something else but DOES NOT use words such as like, as or than |
| Imagery | descriptive language that appeals to all five senses that gives a reader a mental picture or image of what is described |
| Personification | figure of speech in which human qualities, characteristics or behaviors are used to describe something that is non-human |
| Onomatopoeia | the use of words that sound like the very things they describe |
| Meter | rythmic pattern of poetry or prose |
| Rhythm | pattern of beats or feet in poetry or prose |
| Iambic Pentameter | a line of poetry or prose that consists of 5 feet, each made up of a weakly stressed syllable or beat followed by a strongly stressed syllable or beat |
| Blank Verse | unrhymed poetry or prose written in iambic pentameter |
| Free Verse | poetry or prose that has no regular rhyme, rythm, meter, scheme or division into stanzas |
| Assonance | repetition of vowel sounds in stressed syllables that do not always end in the same consonant |
| Couplet | a pair of rhyming lines of poetry or prose that expresses a complete thought often used at the end of a fourteen line sonnet |
| Lyric Poetry | highly musical or rhythmic poetry that expresses the emotions of the speaker; often contrasted with narrative poetry that tells a story, such as epic poems |
| Sonnet | a fourteen line poem using iambic pentameter and a specific rhyme scheme of three four-line stanzas that usually ends with a couplet |
| Overstatement | when something is overstated or exaggerated to create a specific image for the reader |
| Hyperbole | an extreme exaggeration used to create a specific image for the reader |
| Stanza | a recurring pattern of grouped lines of poetry or prose: example- couplet- a two-line stanza; quatrain- a four-line stanza |
| Rhyme Scheme | a specific pattern of recurring rhythm or rhymes used throughout a poem: example- a sonnet |
