| A | B |
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| alliteration | repetition of initial consonant sounts (peter piper picked) |
| assonance | repetition of a vowel sound |
| onomatopoeia | BANG, BOOM, BUZZ |
| rhyme | repetiton of the same sound |
| rhyme scheme | (aa, bb, abab) bay day, book, took, bay took day book |
| rhythm | a beat of stressed & unstressed syllables |
| euphony | pleasant sound (quiet) |
| cacophony | unpleasant sound (loud) |
| meter | the arrangement of poetry by number of syllable, & rhythm of stressed syllables |
| mood | the feeling created in a story |
| tone | attitude that the author takes toward the audience |
| point of view | the vantage point from which a story is told, 1st person, 2nd person, etc. |
| diction | word choice |
| denotation | the dictionary meaning of a word |
| connotation | teh emotional response that a word can trigger |
| allusion | the reference to something which the reader is likely to be familiar with |
| exaggeration | extremely stretching the truth |
| idiom | a phrase that can't be taken by literal meaning |
| imagery | language that appeals to your senses |
| metaphor | comparing 2 unlike things; does NOT use like or as |
| parallelism | similar patterns of grammar and sentence length |
| personification | giving an animal a human trait |
| simile | comparison of 2 like things using "like" or "as" |
| stanza | a group of lines seperated in a poem by a blank line |
| pantoum | a 4-stanza quatrain; repeating pattern |
| sestina | French poem; no rhyme scheme |
| structure | how a poem is set up; how many lines |
| free verse | no order; no rhyme scheme |
| couplet | 2 line stanza |
| triplet | 3 line stanza |
| sestet | 6 line stanza |
| Envoi | last stanza in a sestet, 3 lines; 3 words embedded |
