| A | B |
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| metaphor | a comparison between 2 unlike things in which one thing becomes another thing |
| alliteration | the repetition of the same consonant sound in words close together; "busy bee" |
| simile | a comparison between 2 unlike things using as, like, or resembles |
| onomatopoeia | the use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning; BOOM! |
| personification | a methphor in which a nonhuman thing is talked about as if it were alive |
| refrain | a reapeated word, phrase, line, or group or lines in a poem |
| imagery | language that appeals to the five senses - sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell |
| mood | the overall emotion created by the poem |
| rhyme | the repetition of accented vowel sounds and the sounds following them; clown and brown |
| poetry | a kind of rhythmic, compressed language that uses figures of speech and imagery to appeal to emotion and imagination |
| stanza | a group of lines that form a unit, like a paragraph in prose |
| end rhyme | rhymes that occur at the end of the line |
| pseudonym | a fake name |
| internal rhyme | rhymes that occur within the line |
| anonymous | unknown author |
| free verse | poetry that has no regular meter/rhyme |
| rhyme scheme | the pattern of rhyming sounds at the end of the line (ABAB, AABB,etc.) |
| hyperbole | the use of extreme exaggeration |
