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| speaker | the voice that talks to the reader |
| line | a word or row of words that may or may not form a complete sentence |
| stanza | a group of lines forming a unit |
| rhythm | a pattern of sound created by the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line |
| meter | a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables |
| rhyme | the repetition of the same stressed vowel sound |
| symbol | any object, person, or place that represents something else |
| tone | the attitude toward a subject that is expressed by the author or speaker |
| theme | the main idea or message of a work of literature |
| Haiku | an unhymed Japanese poem that contins exactly seventeen syllables |
