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| alliteration | the repetition of initial or end consonant sounds |
| resonance | the repetition of vowel sounds |
| imagery | words or phrases that appeal to any sense or any combination of senses |
| onomatopoeia | the use of words which imitate sound |
| repetition | the repeating of words, prases, lines or stanzas |
| stanza | a grouping of two or more lines of a poem in terms of length, metrical form, or rhyme scheme |
| rhyme scheme | the sequence in which the rhyme occurs |
| metaphor | comparison of two objects to give clearer meaning to one of them |
| simile | comparison of two objects using words such as like, as, or than |
| personification | a figure of speech which gives animals, ideas, or inanimate objects human traits or abilities |
| meter | the appearance of stressed and unstressed syllables |
| quintain | a five line stanza with set rhyme scheme |
| tone | the mood a poem creates in a reader, expressed in its words and rhythm |
| couplet | two consecutive lines of a poem that form a unit and usually rhyme |
| quatrain | four line stanza with set rhyme scheme |
| sonnet | poem with 3 quatrains and one couplet |
| iambic pentameter | five sets of one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable |
