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| alliteration | The repetition of consonant sounds in a poem to create pleasing musical effects. |
| allusion | A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art. |
| blank verse | Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter lines and each iambic foot has unstressed then stressed syllables. |
| free verse | Poetry not written in a regular rhythmical pattern, or meter. |
| lyric | A highly musical verse that expresses the observations and feelings of a single speaker. |
| metaphor | A figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else. |
| simile | A figure of speech that makes a direct comparison between two subjects using either like or as. |
| onomatopoeia | The use of words that imitate actual sounds. |
| narrative | A poem that tells a story and has one or more characters, a setting, a conflict, and events bringing about a conclusion. |
| speaker | In a poem the voice of the poet or the voice of a character invented by the poet. |
| dramatic | Poetry in which one or more characters speak to tell directly what is happening. |
| extended metaphor | A comparison made by equating two different items throughout the entire poem. |
| personification | A figure of speech in which an object, animal, or idea is given characteristics of a human. |
| repetition | The repeating of words of phrases gives a poem the sound of a song. |
| parallelism | refers to the repetition of the same grammatical form or structure. |
| rhyme scheme | A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem, described by using letters of the alphabet for the different sounds at the ends of lines. |
| rhyme | The repetition of sounds at the ends of words. |
| rhythm | The pattern of beats, or stresses, in spoken or written language used to emphasize ideas and feelings. |
| assonance | The close repetition of similar vowel sounds in a poem. |
