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| simile | comparison using like or as |
| metaphor | comparison between two basically unlike things |
| poetry | the art of expressing one's thoughts in verse |
| personification | giving human qualities to an inanimate object |
| alliteration | the repetition on consonant sounds |
| assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds within a line of poetry |
| rhythm, beat, or meter | the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables into patterns |
| rhyme | the repetition of syllable sounds |
| stanza | a group of lines forming a division in the poem |
| imagery | using words to appeal to the senses |
| tone | author's expressed attitude toward the subject |
| internal rhyme | rhyme within a line of poetry |
| end rhyme | rhyme at the ends of a line of poetry |
| rhyme scheme | the pattern of end rhyme |
| onomatopoeia | word used to imitate a sound |
| refrain | recurring phrase or verse at the end of each stanza |
| repetition | the act of repeating |
| inverted order | to reverse the order of words in a phrase opposite of the normal use |
| allusion | a reference to someone or something...usually famous or religious |
| symbol | something that has meaning in itself but suggests other meanings as well |
| apostrophe | an address to a person or thing |
| connotation | what is suggested, beyond the literal meaning, of a word |
| denotation | dictionary definition |
| poetic license | the freedom of a poet to invent new words, etc. in order to create a special meaning |
| speaker | the voice in the poem |
| theme | underlying meaning in a poem that contains a lesson to be learned |
| oxymoron | an expression combining terms that clash or contradict each other |
