| A | B |
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| rhyme scheme | pattern of the ryme that's formed by the end rhyme |
| speaker | voice that communicates with the readers of the poem |
| internal rhyme | occurs within the lines of the poetry |
| line | horizontal line of words |
| stanza | group of lines that form a unit |
| consonance | repetitionof consonant sounds at the end of the line |
| assonance | repetition of vowel sounds at the end of the line |
| alliteration | repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of the line |
| onomatopoeia | imitates a sound (examples: sizzle, boom) |
| meter | regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables |
| imagery | descriptive language |
| simile | describes something by using like or as |
| metaphor | compares two or more things by saying one thing is another |
| personification | giving human characteristics to an object or animal |
| mood | the feeling a poem creates in the reader |
| symbol | something that represents more than what it is |
| enjambment | continuation of an idea or thought across the lines of poetry |
| sonnet | ababcdcdefefgg, has three quatrains and one couplet |
