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alliteration | The repetition of the same or very similar consonant sounds in words that are close together. |
fable | a brief story in porse or verse that teaches a moral or gives a proctical lesson about how to get along in life. |
free verse | Poetry without a regular meter or a rhyme scheme |
metaphor | An imaginative comparison between two unlie things inwhich one thing is said to be another thing |
onomatopoeia | The use of words whose sounds echo their sense |
rhyme | The repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words close together in a poem |
Rhythm | A musical quality produced by the repetiion of stressed and unstressed syllables or by the repetition of certain other sound patterns. |
Simile | A comparision between two unlike things, using a word such as like, as, than, or resembles. |
Stanza | In a poem a group of consectutive lines that forms a single unit. |