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| imagery | words that appeal to the senses |
| figurative language | words that are not intended to be taken as literally true |
| simile | a comparison between two different things using like, as, than, or resembles |
| metaphor | comparison of 2 different things WITHOUT using like, as, than, or resembles |
| direct metaphor | a metaphor that uses the word IS |
| implied metaphor | a metaphor that does NOT use the word IS |
| extended metaphor | a metaphor that lasts over several lines of poetry |
| personification | giving human qualities to something that is not human |
| hyperbole | an exaggeration, often used for comic effect. |
| stanza | a grouping of poetic lines, like a paragraph |
| true rhyme | words that rhyme from the stressed syllable to the end |
| approximate (or slant) rhyme | words that aren't true rhymes, but sound somewhat alike |
| end rhyme | rhyming at the ends of lines |
| internal rhyme | rhyming in the middle of lines |
| rhyme scheme | a regular pattern of end rhyme, such as ABABCDCDEFEFGG |
| onomatopoeia | words that mean what they sound, such as "bang" or "buzz" |
| parallelism | repetition of words, phrases, and key grammatical structures. |
| oxymoron | two seemingly contradictory words combined together (ex. “bright night”) |
| meter | the rhythm in a line of poetry formed by combining stressed and unstressed syllables |
| foot | one unit of a meter pattern |
| alliteration | the repetition of beginning consonant sounds in words near each other |
| assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds in words near each other |
| consonance | the repetition of consonant sounds WITHIN words near each other |
| prose | anything not written in poetry form; written margin to margin |
| enjambment | When a phrase, a clause, or a sentence in a line of poetry doesn't finish at the line break but continues into the next line |
