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sensory image | image that appeals the 5 senses |
simile | a comparison between 2 things using 'like or as' |
metaphor | a comparison of 2 unlike things in which one is referred to as though it were the other |
personification | figurative language in which non-human things are given human characteristics |
alliteration | repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words |
onomatopoeia | use of words that imitate sounds |
stanza | a poetic paragraph containing one main idea |
free verse | poetry without a regular rhythm, meter, or rhyme |
rhythm | the pattern of stresses or beats in written language |
rhyme scheme | a regular pattern of rhymed words at the end of a line of poetry |
sonnet | a lyric poem containing 14 lines with a particular stanza and rhyme pattern |
meter | a rhythmical pattern determined by the number and types of stresses in a line of poetry |
narrative poem | tells a story and has all the elements of fiction |
speaker | the narrator of a poem who may or may not be the poet |