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| metaphor | a figure of speech that makes an implied comparison |
| mood | emotional state expressed in a literary work |
| personification | metaphorical figure of speech in which the a nunhuman is given human qualities |
| simile | a comparison of two dissimilar things, using comparison words |
| onomatopoeia | a figure of speech in which the sound of a word reflects its sense or meaning |
| theme | a main idea or central idea that may be stated directly or indirectly |
| tone | the reflections of an author's attitude toward the topic and the audience as suggested by his or her word choices and stylistic effors |
| voice | the expression of an author's self or identity as relected in sentence construction or word choices |
| alliteration | the repetition of the beginning sounds of two or more neighboring words |
| haiku | a poem with three lines, with a syllable pattern of 5,7,5 |
| concrete poem | a poem with a shape that suggests its subject |
| lyric poem | a highly musical verse that expresses the observations and feelings of a single speaker |
| narrative poem | a story told in verse |
| nonsense verse | a poem meant to be humerous and silly, describing events that could not happen |
| figurative language | writing or speech not meant to be taken literally |
| imagery | words or phrases that appeal to one or more of the five senses |
