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| alliteration | repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words |
| hyperbole | an extreme exaggeration |
| onomatopoeia | the use of words that sound like what they name |
| metaphor | a comparison of two things that does not use "like" or "as" |
| personification | an expression that gives human qualities/abilities to non-human things |
| repetition | using the same word or phrase more than once for emphasis |
| rhyme | using words whose endings sound alike |
| rhythm | a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables |
| simile | a comparison of two things using "like," "as," "than," or "seems" |
| ballad | a songlike poem |
| couplet | a pair of rhyming lines |
| free verse | poetry without a regular meter or rhyme scheme |
| haiku | a 17 syllable, unrhymed poem usually about nature |
| limerick | a 5 line, rhymed, rhythmic poem that is usually humorous |
| quatrain | a stanza containing four lines |
| consonance | repetition of consonant sounds anywhere in words |
| assonance | repetition of vowel sounds anywhere in words |
| verse | a line of poetry |
| refrain | a repeated set of lines, much like a chorus |
| sestet | a set of six lines in a stanza |
| octet/octave | a set of eight lines in a stanza |
| form | a pattern of poetic devices |
| style | any specific way of using language |
| paralellism | an arrangement of similarly constructed verses/lines in a poem |
