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| form | the way a poem looks on a page |
| lines | poems are written this way; may or may not be complete sentences |
| stanzas | lines in a poem are grouped this way |
| free verse | poems having no regular pattern |
| speaker | may be the poet or a character the poet created |
| structured form | lines in a stanza having a regular, repeated pattern |
| voice | the speaker of the poem relating the story or ideas |
| dialect | a language form spoken in a certain place by a certain group of people |
| idiom | a figure of speech that cannot be explained literally |
| idiom | That guy's name is on the tip of my tongue. |
| meter | creates a poem's rhythm; pattern of accented & unaccented syllables |
| personification | figure of speech giving lifelike characteristics to nonhuman things |
| personification | The wind laughed as it ran through the forest. |
| analogy | comparison between 2 things that seem dissimilar, in order to show the ways in which they might be similar |
| metaphor | figure of speech in which two unlike things, people, or places are imaginatively compared |
| metaphor | As the cold front moved in, the sky turned into a thick gray blanket. |
| simile | figure of speech that uses like, as, or as if to compare 2 unlike objects that share some common characteristic |
| simile | Rebecca was so scared and pale that she looked like a ghost! |
| rhyme | repetition of similar sounds at the ends of words |
| rhyme | tall and fall |
