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| connotation | the emotional meaning of a word based on personal experience |
| personification | giving human characteristics to nonhuman things |
| onomatopoeia | use of a word to describe or imitate a sound |
| consonance | words in which the final consonant sound agrees but the sound may differ |
| alliteration | the repetition of the same initial sound,letter,or group of sounds or series of words |
| hyperbole | dramatic exaggeration |
| imagery | words that arouse the five senses |
| metaphor | a comparison of one thing to another not normally related |
| quatrain | stanza of four lines |
| refrain | line repeated in a poem |
| meter | rhythm established by a poem |
| speaker | voice behind the poem |
| simile | compares unlike things using the word like or as |
| narrative poem | poem that tells a story with one or more characters |
| haiku | three line poem, five syllable, seven syllable, five syllable usually about nature |
| concrete poem | poem that words take the structure of a picture that represents the subject of the poem |
| limerick | humorous, rhyming five line poem with a specific rhyme pattern and rhythm |
| free verse | a poem without structure, rhyme, or rhythm |
| tone | writer's attitude towards his or her subject |
| lyric pome | expresses thoughts feelings, emotions of speaker often highly musical manner |
