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| poetry | The most compact form of literature. It packs all kinds of ideas, feelings, and sounds into a few carefully chosen words |
| speaker | The speaker is the voice that "talks" to the reader, similiar to the narrator in fiction. |
| form | the way a poem looks, or its page (which may add to the poem's meaning) |
| lines | groups of words that may not be sentences |
| stanzas | lines that are separated into groups |
| sound | chosen and arranged words that create what the poet wants the listener to hear |
| rhythm | often the "beat" of the poem - it is the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry |
| rhyme | words that end with the same sound |
| repetition | repeated sounds, words, phrases, or whole lines in a poem |
| alliteration | the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words |
| onomatopoeia | the use of words whose sounds echo their meanings, such as buzz, whisper, gargle, and murmur. |
| imagery | words and phrases that appeal to the five senses (taste, touch, smell, sound, sight) |
| simile | a comparison that uses the words like or as |
| metaphor | a comparison that does not use the words like or as |
| personification | giving an animal or object human-like qualities |
| mood | the feeling created in the reader by a literary work - it is also called the atmosphere |
