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| poetry | a kind of rhythmic, compressed language that uses figures of speech and imagery designed to appeal to our emotions and imaginations |
| narrative poem | a poem that tells a story |
| lyric poem | a poem that expresses feelings or thoughts of a speaker rather than telling a story |
| stanza | a group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit |
| rhyme scheme | the pattern of end rhyme in a poem |
| end rhyme | rhymes at the end of lines |
| internal rhyme | rhyme within the same lines |
| rhyming couplet | two consecutive end rhymes |
| onomatopoeia | the use of words whose sounds imitate or suggest their meaning |
| assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds within words – Fruit Loop mad glad |
| alliteration | the repetition of consonant sounds in words that are close together at the start of words Captain Crunch |
| symbol | a person, place, or event that has meaning in itself and stands for something beyond itself as well (a flag) |
| imagery | language that appeals to the senses |
| repetition | to repeat words and phrases |
| simile | a comparison between two unlike things using "like" or "as" |
| metaphor | an imaginative comparison between two unlike things in which one thing is said to be another thing (That car is a rocket.) |
| personification | a figure of speech in which an object or animal is spoken of as if it had humanfeelings (or characteristics) |
| hyperbole | overstating something, usually for the purpose of creating a comic effect |
| understatement | intentionally making something seem less important than it is |
